Moonshine
Systems that are Solar
Vocabulary 1
Rocky Mountains
Periodically
100
Lunar Eclipse
What is it called when the Moon passes between Sun and Earth?
100
There are 8 total.
What are the amount of known planets in the solar system?
100
The thin outermost layer of the Earth where organisms live.
What is crust?
100
When minerals in a sedimentary rock melt and then cool.
What is igneous rock?
100
Fe
What is Iron?
200
Waxing Moon
What is when more of the moon can be seen from Earth every day?
200
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
What are gas giants?
200
a plate boudnary where two plates move toward one another
What is convergent plate boundary?
200
When igneous rock weathers and erodes into fragments these fragments are formed.
What is metamorphic rock?
200
O2
What is an example of an oxygen molecule?
300
Waxing Gibbous
What is the moon called when it is slowly getting bigger?
300
The Red Planet
What is Mars?
300
A theory that explains the global distribution of geological phenomena such as seismicity, volcanism, continental drift, and mountain building in terms of the formation, destruction, movement, and interaction of the earth's lithospheric plates.
What are plate tectonics?
300
A hard silicate mineral.
What is granite?
300
Increasing the temperature increases the solubility of ____
What are solids?
400
The Phases of the Moon
What is New Moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent?
400
Venus, Mercury, Earth and Mars.
What are terrestrial planets?
400
Any natural resource (as wood or solar energy) that can be replenished naturally with the passage of time.
What is a renewable resource?
400
The process by which the porosity of a given form of sediment is decreased as a result of its mineral grains being squeezed together by the weight of overlying sediment or by mechanical means.
What is compaction?
400
Basic solutions have pH higher than ____
What is 7?
500
New Moon
What is the side of the moon that is facing the Earth is not lit up by the sun?
500
Has a temperature of 500 degrees Celsius and clouds of sulfuric acid.
What is Venus?
500
The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass
What is gravity?
500
Cooling, heat and pressure, compaction and cementation and weathering and erosion.
What are the processes in the rock cycle?
500
Litmus paper determines the _____ of a solution.
What is pH?
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