STAAR Category 3 Review

When the Earth is tilted toward the Sun-

• Winter

• Summer

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

When the Sun, Earth, and Moon are in a 90 degree angle that causes medium tides-

• Neap Tides

• Spring Tides

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Earth's orbit around the Sun that takes one year-

• Revolution

• Rotation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

90% of all stars fall in this area-

• High Mass Stars

• Main Sequence Stars

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

Boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other that causes earthquakes-

• Converging Plate Boundary

• Transform Plate Boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A weather front that brings warmer weather-

• Warm Front

• Cold Front

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

The lithosphere is made up of moving tectonic plates-

• Plate Tectonic Theory

• Pangea

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Long Wavelength and low frequency-

• UV Ray, XRay, Gamma Ray

• Radio, Microwave, Infrared

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

The spinning of Earth on its axis-

• Rotation

• Revolution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A large cloud of gas and dust, the birth of a star-

• Low Mass Star

• Nebula