Space Systems
The Revolution of Earth
What is orbiting around an object?
The evidence provided for the Continental Drift Theory
What is puzzle pieces, measurements, climate, and fossils?
Strongest Earthquakes and tallest volcanoes located here
What is a the "Ring of Fire"?
When an object in space blocks an observer from viewing another object in space
What is an eclipse?
High pressure brings
What is good/happy weather?
The length of the Earth's revolution around the sun
What is 365 1/4 days?
The theory that the continents were all once one super continent called Pangea, and it broke apart and drifted away from each other.
What is Continental Drift Theory?
For a metamorphic rock to become sedimentary rock
What is Weathering and Erosian?
Contains the ozone layer and the airplanes fly here
What is the Stratosphere?
The boundary between two air masses meet
What is a weather front?
The reason that the Earth has seasons
What is Revolution around the sun?
The mantle consists of
What is Lithosphere and Asthenosphere?
This type of rock is a result of being heated up under a lot of pressure
What is Metamorphic?
The first layer of the atmosphere where we live and breathe
What is the Troposphere?
An airmass that forms over water, and is moist, and the place that it formed is warm
What is Maritime Tropical (MT)?
Label a Lunar Eclipse
What is the Sun, Earth and Moon?
Three types of plate boundaries
What is a convergent boundary (collide), divergent boundary (separate), and a transform boundary (slide)?
This type of rock is created when magma or lava cools
What is Igneous?
The coldest layer of the atmosphere and slows down Meteors
What is the Mesosphere?
Close lines around a low pressure system often suggest
What is a strong storm?
Label the phases of the moon starting with the 3rd quarter.
What is waning crescent, new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous?
Transfer of heat through heat, the warm- less dense will rise and then it will cool and become more dense and sink. In the earth the heat source is the inner core.
What is the Convection Current?
Two types of Igneous Rocks
What is Intrusive and Extrusive?
Layers of the atmosphere going from outer space in to the crust of Earth
What is Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, and Troposphere?
This causes winds to curve
What is the Coriolis Effect?