Famous Scientists
Out of this World!
The Solar System
Rockin' the Rock Cycle
The Restless Earth
100
This scientists used a telescope to see sunspots and craters on the moon
Who is Galileo?
100
The name of our galaxy
What is the Milky Way?
100
This planet is closest to the Sun
What is Mercury?
100
Volcanic rocks
What is igneous?
100
The thinnest compositional layer of Earth
What is the crust?
200
The scientists came up with the theory of continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
A large, reddish star late in its life cycle
What is a red giant?
200
The largest planet in our Solar System
What is Jupiter?
200
Goes through weathering, erosion, deposition, and compaction and cementation
What is sedimentary?
200
Pieces of lithosphere that float around on top of the mantle
What are tectonic plates?
300
Theorized that the sun and all the planets orbited around the Earth
Who is Ptolemy?
300
a small, hot dim star that is the leftover center of an old star
What is a white dwarf?
300
The inner rocky planets are known as this
What is terrestrial?
300
Formed through heat and pressure
What is metamorphic rock?
300
Type of stress that causes normal faults
What is tension?
400
Came up with the theory that the Earth and all the other planets orbited the Sun
Who is Copernicus?
400
Large groups of stars, dust, and gas
What is a galaxy?
400
This separates the inner planets from the outer planets
What is the asteroid belt?
400
A type of metamorphic rock with ribbon-like waves used in sculpture and building materials
What is marble?
400
The composition of the core
What is iron and nickle?
500
The best 6th grade science teacher you've ever had
Who is Ms. Nusbaum?
500
The three shapes of galaxies
What are elliptical, spiral, and irregular?
500
This planet rotates on its side
What is Uranus?
500
A smooth, glassy extrusive igneous rock typically dark in color
What is obsidian?
500
All of the physical layers of the Eart
What are lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core?
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