Physical Properties of Water Plate Tectonics Astronomy Geologic Time Grab Bag
100
What is pH?
It is a measure of how acidic or basic a body of water is (more specifically of the concentration of hydrogen ions). You use special paper to monitor this. Many organisms cannot survive below 5.
100
Why did scientists reject Wegener's Continental Drift hypothesis?
He could not tell why or how the continents were moving.
100
What is a Main Sequence star?
A star that is fusing hydrogen into helium.
100
What is climate change?
This is always followed by mass extinctions as many species are unable to cope with the new conditions.
100
What is cholera?
This is a waterborne disease caused by a bacteria. To eliminate the bacteria you can filter and boil the water. Moving toilets away from water and washing hands and food with clean water are all good ideas to avoid this nasty disease.
200
What is turbidity
It is a measure of the clarity (or conversely, murkiness) of water. The murkier the water, the less light is able to penetrate the water, and the less oxygen there will be.
200
Draw a picture of how convection works in the mantle.
200
What is a Red Giant?
A large star that is fusing helium into heavier elements like carbon and oxygen.
200
80g
A substance has a half life of 20 minutes. After 80 minutes, you have 5g of this substance left. How much did you start with?
200
What are the three piece of evidence we discussed for the Big Bang?
Red Shift, Cosmic Background Radiation and the Abundance of Hydrogen in the universe
300
What are phosphates and nitrates.
Nutrients for plants. Can cause harmful algeal blooms when there are too many.
300
Because the mantle is moving underneath the crust, the crust is carried along by those currents.
Why do the plates move?
300
What is the life cycle of a supermassive star?
Nebula, Main Sequence, Red Super Giant, Supernova, then either planetary nebula, black hole or neutron star
300
What is the Snowball Earth & what came right after it?
The time when the entire Earth was covered in ice, in many places up to 3km thick, even at the equator. After this time period, life on Earth exploded in its diversity.
300
What are mosquito larvae & leeches?
These organisms do not mind warm water or low pH or pollution; this water could be very polluted if these are the only things you find.
400
What is temperature?
An increase in this value could be caused by lack of shade, industrial pollution, runoff from impervious surfaced, etc. It directly impacts dissolved oxygen.
400
Oceanic crust is constantly recycled as new crust is made at mid ocean ridges and old crust is destroyed at subduction zones.
Why is the oldest oceanic crust only 180 million years old if the first oceans formed 3.9 billion years ago?
400
What is a light year?
The DISTANCE light travels in one year. Approximately 5.8 trillion miles.
400
What is Carbon-14?
Its half life is 5370 years. It is often used for dating formerly living organisms. It is only useful for samples younger than 70,000 years
400
Model the events of the nebular hypothesis with your bodies. You have two minutes to prepare.
500
What is dissolved oxygen
It is the most important measurement of water quality, measuring the amount of a certain gas in the water. It is dependent upon nearly every other factor, especially including temperature. As temperature rises, this measurement decreases.
500
Shapes of continents match, fossils, mountain ranges, rock types and glacial striations.
The 5 pieces of evidence Alfred Wegener used for the Continental Drift hypothesis.
500
What is a red shift?
When a light source is moving away from a fixed point, the fixed point sees light that has a longer wavelength. This is one of the pieces of evidence for the Big Bang.
500
Put the following events in order on a small timeline: dinosaurs go extinct, snowball earth, Earth is born, Thea impact makes the Moon, humans rule the Earth, Cambrian explosion of life, first dinosaurs
500
What are dobsonflies, stoneflies, mayflies and caddis flies?
These are the most sensitive macro invertebrates that require the cleanest water; it is not polluted because pollution kills these organisms.






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