Space
Name of galaxy our solar system is in
What is the Milky Way?
Known as the Red Planet
What is Mars?
The 3 layers of Earth
What are the crust, the mantle, and the core?
Where earthquakes commonly happen
What are fault lines?
thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, troposphere
What are the layers of the atmosphere?
A massive, hot, shining ball of gas.
What is a star?
This planet is extremely hot during the day and bitterly cold at night
What is Mercury?
A mass of ice that gathers at the top of a land mass and slowly flows downhill
What is a glacier?
Type of rock made from fire, meaning that it forms when hot molten rock cools
What are igneous rocks?
A collection of water droplets and dust particles that is caused by a drop in pressure and is visible from Earth.
What are clouds?
A dot-to-dot picture in the night sky
What is a constellation?
Largest planet in solar system
What is Jupiter?
A fan-shaped system of streams that is created when a river splits into many smaller branches before it enters the sea
What is a delta?
Type of rock that has been changed by heat or pressure
What are metamorphic rocks?
The effect of the spinning of the Earth, which forces winds and currents into a spiral
What is the Coriolis effect?
Formed by a collapsed star, has a very strong gravitational pull
What is a black hole?
This planet is a bright blue gas giant dotted with dark spots and white cloud
What is Neptune?
Any gas that traps heat from the Sun, such as carbon dioxide.
What are greenhouse gases?
Type of rock made from tiny pieces of rock and dead organic matter that have been compressed into solid layers
What are sedimentary rocks?
This forms when hot, fast, upward-moving air currents meet cold, downward-moving air currents
What are tornadoes?
Galaxies are classified by this
What is their shape?
Large rocks falling from space that do not completely burn up in our atmosphere
What are meteorites?
The daily movements of the sea up and down the shore; they are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon
What are tides?
This cycle causes erosion & weathering
What is the water cycle?
A scientist who studies weather and weather forecasting
What is a meteorologist?