Cosmic Explorers
The largest Jovian planet. (gas giant)
What is Jupiter?
I am a volcano that is wide with a gentle slope. I have quiet eruptions.
What is a shield volcano?
The law which explains the age of sedimentary rock?
"What is the green house effect?"
The saying Mrs. Gullicks taught to identify moon phases.
What is "Waxing happens right away, waning is left delayed?"
If you find a lot of this rock (in the rock cycle) you have more than likely found an area that lies near volcanic mountains.
What is igneous rock?
The area that lies on the Pacific Plate that is considered the most geologically active area in the world.
"What is the Ring of Fire?"
"What is the Cenozoic?"
Name the three green house gasses.
"What are carbon dioxide, water vapor and methane?"
What is the umbra?
What is the saying that Mrs. Gullicks used to remember WED?
What is "Weathering Breaks It... Erosion Takes it.. and Deposition Drops It."
When an Earthquake occurs, I am the last body wave to arrive?
"What is an S Wave?"
When you say that Rock Layer 1 is the oldest because it lies at the bottom of a rock strata, you are what type of rock dating?
"What is the relative age?"
Name two of the three fossil fuel.
"What are coal, oil and natural gas?"
According to all the stars in the milky way our sun is considered to a(n) ____________ star.
What is average or medium?
What residents did not need to be worried in Volcano Hunters and give two reasons why?
What is "The residents of Katmandu" They didn't live near igneous rock. They lived near a convergent boundary of land and land.
I am the process that occurs at a convergent boundary when oceanic crust meets continental crust.
"What is subduction or subduction zone?"
A fossil that is only found in one layer over a short period of time.
"What is an index fossil?"
In the movie Wall-E what was the name of the store plastered all over the city.
What is Orion's Belt?
What element on the periodic table will make some magma thicker than others and more dangerous.
What is silica or silicon?
Continental Crust is mostly made of ___________ while Oceanic Crust is mostly made of ____________.
"What is granite and What is basalt?"
The extinction of the dinosaur occurred during what two eras?
"What is the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras?"
When was Earth Day 2025?
"What is April 22?"