Famous People
Known for discovering the law of universal gravitation.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton
A clear low pressure in the center of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
largest planet in the solar system
What is Juipiter?
The breaking down or peeling away of rocks
What is exfoliation?
Level region of the deep ocean floor
What is the abyssal plain?
The father of modern rocketry
Who is Robert Goddard?
An abrupt discharge of electricity through the air.
What is lightning?
Unit of measurement between the sun and earth
What is an astronomical unit?
lava that forms a smooth ropey surface
What is pahoehoe?
Deepest known point in the sea
What is Challenger Deep?
Correctly calculated the return of a comet in 1682
Who is Edmund Halley?
The term for a tornado over water.
What is a water spout?
The brightest of all constellations.
What is Orion?
the process known to break rocks down into soil
What is weathering?
A winding looping curve in a river
What is a meander?
Wrote on the Origin of Species.
Who is Charles Darwin?
A long line of thunderstorms usually along a cold front.
What is a squall line?
mountains formed when one side is forced upward and the other forced downward
What is a fault-block mountain?
a device using sound waves to detect objects underwater
What is sonar?
First human to walk on the moon.
The phase of lightning seen as a brilliant flash
What is the return stroke?
Light Reflecting telescope put into space in 1990
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
The upper surface of groundwater
What is the water table?
Column of rock formed when a sea arch collapses
What is a sea stack?