Planets in Our Solar System
What is Earth?
The diagram that shows how different rocks can move from one type to another
What is the rock diagram?
This space object is referred to as a "dirty snowball" as it is made of frozen gases and ice
What is a comet?
The name for the landmass that formed when all the continents were one
What is Pangea?
The biggest and only star in our solar system
What is the SUN?
A planet that is smaller than other planets; it can't clear it's orbital pathway like other planets
What is a dwarf planet?
Has a crystal like structure and is the building block of rocks
What is a mineral?
This space object is made up of a huge pieces of rock.
What is an asteroid?
Movement in the mantle and crust responsible for mountains forming, earthquakes, tsunami's, etc
What are tectonic plates?
An organism that is not from Earth
The planet that humans could possible live on if we had the right technology
What is Mars?
A ball of gas and dust that forms when gravity pulls them together
What is a star?
The theory that tectonic plates are slowly moving apart from each other over time. Eventually, the continents will meet again as once landmass.
What is continental drift theory?
A pocket of stars and planets in an area of space
What is a galaxy?
The planets that make up the inner planets
What is Earth, Mercury, Mars, & Venus?
An imprint or bones (inorganic material) left behind under layers of soil
What is a fossil?
What is a black hole?
The TWO types of evidence that scientists used to prove that Pangea occurred:
What is 1. types of fossils/tracking animals across continents 2. types of rocks?
Everything in space - planets, galaxies, stars, comets, etc
What is the universe?
The planets that make up the outer planets
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune?
The 4 layers of the Earth:
What is the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust?
The galaxy our current solar system is apart of:
What is the Milky Way?
The cycle that shows how water is recycled through Earth; water can go through all 3 states of matter in this cycle
What is the water cycle?
Referred to in class as the "checkpoint" between inner and outer planet; made up of huge pieces of rock
What is the asteroid belt?