Earth, Moon, and Sun
The moon phase before a half moon.
What is a waxing crescent?
What is the asteroid belt?
The second hottest layer of Earth.
What is the outer core?
What is lava?
This makes up 97% of Earth's water.
What is salt water?
What in an umbra?
These planets are rocky, closer to the sun, and smaller than planets on the other side of the asteroid belt.
What are the inner planets?
The largest or widest of Earth's layers.
What is the mantle?
This type of plate boundary happens when two plates pull apart.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
This part of the water cycle involves trees and plants releasing water vapor into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
This happens when the moon blocks sunlight from reaching a part of Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
This object is made of rock and metal, and it has already hit a planet's surface.
This layer is hot enough to be melted liquid, but the pressure of the other layers keeps it solid.
What is the inner core?
What is a tsunami?
Where almost all of the fresh water we use is located.
What are lakes and rivers?
This season occurs when a model of Earth is showing one of Earth's hemispheres leaning toward the sun.
What is summer?
This object is made of ice that melts and forms a "tail" when it gets close to the sun.
What is a comet?
What is magma?
What are volcanoes?
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are all types of this.
What is precipitation?
What is winter?
This is the science name for an oval or egg-shaped orbit of a moon around a planet, or a planet or comet around the sun.
What are convection currents?
The heavier, more dense tectonic plate.
What are oceanic plates?
This part of the ocean floor is connected to the beach.
What is the continental shelf?