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Explore Earth and Space Quiz

Test your knowledge about Earth, its natural phenomena, and celestial events with our engaging quiz designed for Grade 7 students. Challenge yourself with questions about geography, weather patterns, and astronomical occurrences!

23 questions covering a range of topics
Suitable for students and anyone interested in learning
Fun way to reinforce knowledge and get ready for exams

23 Questions6 MinutesCreated by LearningExplorer947

The process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural agents

Erosion

Precipitation

Diffusion

Drifting

the largest volcano in the solar system. The massive Martian mountain towers high above the surrounding plains of the red planet, and may be biding its time until the next eruption.

Olympus Mons

Mars

Mayon Volcano

Earth

A fault is a fracture in rock where there has been movement and displacement. When talking about earthquakes being along fault lines, a fault lies at the major boundaries between Earth's tectonic plates, in the crust, and the earthquakes result from the plates' movements.

Faulting

Drifting

Eartquake

Shaking

Defined as the physical and chemical breakdown of Earth’s materials.

Weathering

Faulting

Precipitation

Evaporating

The transfer of air from the atmosphere to earth’s surface.

Precipitation

Faulting

Evaporating

Weathering

A seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain (the wet monsoon ), or from the northeast between October and April (the dry monsoon ).

Monsoon

Solstices

Revolution

365 days

A natural satellite of a planet; an object that revolves around a planet. Mercury and Venus have none, the Earth has one, and Jupiter has seventeen or more.

Moon

Sun

Sputnik 101

Earth

Occurs when the Moon passes directly behind Earth and into its shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are exactly or very closely aligned (in syzygy), with Earth between the other two. ... The only light reflected from the lunar surface has been refracted by Earth's atmosphere.

Lunar Eclipse

Solar Eclipse

Solstices

Equinox

Occurs when the moon gets between Earth and the sun, and the moon casts a shadow over Earth. A solar eclipse can only take place at the phase of new moon, when the moon passes directly between the sun and Earth and its shadows fall upon Earth's surface.

Lunar Eclipse

Solar Eclipse

Solstices

Equinox

Either of the two times in the year, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.

Lunar eclipse

Solar Eclipse

Solstices

Equinox

A low pressure system that generally forms over tropical ocean areas, and brings wind and thunderstorms. Habagat (southwest monsoon) is wind that brings heavy rainfall that results in floods during the wet season. Amihan (northeast monsoon) brings cold air to our shores from the Christmas season to February. These winds have been known to us for centuries.

Typhoon

Hurricane

Equinox

Tropical Cyclone

Triangular area of the tropical marine waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste that contain at least 500 species of reef-building corals in each Eco region.

Coral Triangle

ASEAN

Coral of Triangle

ACEAN

Direction can be determined by an angle <= 90 relative to a North or South compass direction (N30E or S70W).

Azimuthal Notation

Quadrant Notation

Compass

Map

The imaginary great circle around the earth's surface, equidistant from the poles and perpendicular to the earth's axis of rotation. It divides the earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.

Equator

Prime Meridian

Broken Line

Northern Hemisphere

Equator

Prime Meridian

Broken Line

Northern Hemisphere

An instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.

Compass

Map

Globe

Scale

Archipelago came from the word arkhi which means _______ and pelagos which also means __________.

Chief, Sea

Sea, Chief

Island, Ocea

Ocean, Island

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