water cycle
Water forms into clouds
What is condensation?
Rocks formed by melting and combining with various materials at high temperatures.
What is an igneous rock?
Magma spewing out of volcanoes, becoming lava and forming igneous rocks.
What is a volcanic eruption?
Planet within the asteroid belt
What is an inner planet?
When the moon covers the sun, either partially or fully
What is a solar eclipse?
Water in clouds gather and become too heavy to stay in the air and fall down.
What is precipitation?
A flaky sedimentary rock made of silt and clay that is layered and brittle, breaking apart at a moment's touch.
Tectonic activity that causes tremors in the crust of the earth
What is an earthquake?
Rocks or metal floating in space
What is a meteoroid?
The spinning of a celestial body on its own axis
What is a rotation?
Water changes directly from gas to solid, forming frost and other phenomena.
What is deposition?
Rocks that change their chemical structure without melting but still undergoing high amounts of heat
What is a metamorphic rock
The depositing of sediment. Can lead to formation of sedimentary rocks
What is sedimentation
Something that orbits a planet or another one of itself. The most famous example is Earth’s Moon
What is a moon?
The full orbit of a celestial body around another
What is a revolution?
Water soaked up by soil and rocks going into the soil to replenish ground water
What is infiltration?
Most common igneous rock that can float in water
What is Pumice
The moving of sediment like small rocks or sand away from the original location through wind or water.
What is erosion?
Icy body of mass that releases gas and is seem from earth as a long streak of light in the sky
What is a comet?
Ocean levels on the beach rising and falling based on position of the moon
What is a tide?
Water evaporates through the leaves of plants after being absorbed by roots.
What is transpiration?
Glass formed by lava rapidly cooling, creating a shiny black igneous rock
What is obsidian
The breaking down of rock materials through chemical processes or from rapid heating and cooling
What is weathering?
A Disc shaped formation around a planet; doesn’t have to be contiguous
What is a ring?
A Disc shaped formation around a planet; doesn’t have to be contiguous
What is a ring?