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A: The amount of time it takes Earth to orbit the Sun.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lessons/MarsOrbit/2MarsOrbit-MarsEarth.jpg

$100$100Q: What is 1 year?

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A: The latitude of the North Pole.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Arctic_Ocean.png/275px-Arctic_Ocean.png

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Q: What is 90 degrees North?

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A: Crossing over this line will cause you to gain or lose a day on the calendar.

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Q: What is the international date line?

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/graphics/dateline_color.gif

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A: The number of days in the lunar cycle.

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Q: What is 29.5 days?

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A: The reason that the constellations appear to rise and set across the sky each night.

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Q: What is because the Earth is rotating on its axis once every 24 hours?

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/images/earth_rotation.jpg

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A: The type of rock that has a name that means “from fire”.

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Q: What is igneous?

http://www.eoearth.org/files/165901_166000/165915/diorite.jpg

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A: The type of rock formed when small pieces are compacted and cemented together.

http://geology.com/rocks/pictures/breccia.jpg

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Q: What is sedimentary rock?

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A: This type of rock can be foliated (have bands) or nonfoliated (no bands).

http://scitastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Meta01.jpg

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Q: What is metamorphic rock?

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A: Rocks are composed of one or more of these substances ; we tested the hardness of these substances in one of our labs.

$400$400Q: What are minerals?

http://www.bgsd.k12.wa.us/hml/jr_cam/science/rocks/images/minerals.jpg

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A: The type of rock that would be found at position “A” on the diagram.

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Q: What is igneous rock?

$100$100A: The sixth planet from the Sun.

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Q: What is Saturn?

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/saturn/saturn.jpg

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A: This object contains 99% of the mass in our solar system.

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Q: What is the Sun?

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/primer/primer_graphics/Sun.png

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A: Name one of two characteristics that all of the inner planets have in common.

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Q: What is they are small and rocky?

http://www.solstation.com/stars/terr2.gif

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A: The age of Earth in billions of years.

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Q: What is around 5 (actually 4.6) billion years?

http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/images/earth_apollo17.jpg

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A: The planet that has seasons similar to Earth.

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Q: What is Mars?

http://sos.noaa.gov/images/Solar_System/mars.jpg

$100$100A: The color of star with the coolest

temperature.

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Q: What is red?

http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/bmendez/ay10/2000/cycle/redgiant.gif

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A: Many stars fuse hydrogen into this element.

$200$200Q: What is helium?

http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/star_life/images/helium.jpg

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A: The stage of the star life cycle that our Sun is currently going through.

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Q: What is the main sequence?

http://www.world-builders.org/lessons/less/les1/les1gifs/main.gif

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A: A collapsed star with an extremely strong gravitational pull.

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Q: What is a black hole?

http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/blackholesse.jpg

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A: The name of the dark lines that are used to determine the chemical elements that make up a star.

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Q: What are absorption lines (bands)?

http://content4.bestthinking.com/s/1/topics/499/images/56aca3e5-3125-49f4-be09-300b3271a77c_972.jpeg

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A: The name of the theory that describes the beginning of the universe.

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Q: What is the Big Bang theory?

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A: The name of our galaxy.

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A: What is the Milky Way galaxy?

http://www.windows2universe.org/the_universe/images/galaxies/m31_small.gif

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A: Between ultraviolet and infrared, the type of wave that carries more energy.

http://www.darvill.clara.net/emag/images/scale.jpg

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Q: What is ultraviolet?

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A: The age of the universe.

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Q: What is 14 billion years old?

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spectrum that indicates the universe is still expanding and objects are moving away from Earth.

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Q: What is the red-shift?

http://planetfacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/redshift.jpg

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A: The location where subduction is occurring on the map.

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Q: What is letter F?

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A: The “Ring of Fire” is created by this type of plate boundary.

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Q: What is a convergent boundary?

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A: The volcanoes of Hawaii are all this type.

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Q: What are shield volcanoes?

$400$400 A: Sea-floor spreading occurs at this type of plate boundary.

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Q: What is a divergent boundary?

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A: This type of volcano alternates between gentle flows and violent eruptions.

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Q: What is a composite (strato) volcano?