EARTH SCIENCE

(e.g., What is the highest mountain on Earth? Answer: Mount Everest.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. What is moving air called?

2. Excluding Antarctica, what is the largest desert in the world?

3. About how many hours does it take Earth to rotate once on its axis?

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. What is the name for very hot liquid rock found below Earth’s surface?

5. By what name is the parallel of latitude approximately 23.5 degrees north of the equator?

6. What is the name for the outermost layer of Earth?

PH.D. LEVEL

7. What is the term for a scientist who studies earthquakes?

8. Name the layer of Earth’s stratosphere that absorbs most of the sun’s ultraviolet radiation.

9. What is the name of the deepest location in Earth’s oceans?

Answers: 1. Wind. 2. The Sahara Desert. 3. Twenty-four hours. 4. Magma. 5. Tropic of CANCER. 6. The crust. 7. Seismologist. 8. Ozone layer. 9. Mariana Trench.

— North America Syndicate