Plate Motion
What type of scientist would be interested in studying plate motion?
geologist
An event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere
geologic process
a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
cross-section
What is the scientific term used to describe the rocky planets?
terrestrial
What type of rock does cooled magma become?
igneous
A scientist who studies the geosphere of planets in our solar system.
Planetary Geologist
Continents are always moving slowly due to movement in the mantle, they move a few ______________ per year.
centimeters
This word describes all the liquid and frozen water on Earth.
Hydrosphere
The mixture of gases surrounding a planet is known as the ______.
Atmosphere
How many planets in our solar system have a confirmed biosphere?
1
What is the most dense part of earth?
inner core
This type of scientist studies dinosaurs and other ancient life.
paleontologist
An underwater mountain range formed at divergent plate boundaries.
mid ocean ridge
Any of Earth’s main continuous areas of land, such as Africa, Asia, and North America
continent
When one converging plate sinks under the other plate, this processes is...
subduction
As the moon shape appears to get SMALLER, we say that the moon is ____________.
waning
The process of breaking down into smaller pieces is...
weathering
A scientist who studies weather.
meteorologist
A long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed at convergent plate boundaries.
trench
This layer consists of plates that float and move on the soft plastic mantle.
crust
This is fossilized poo
coprolites
Novae form on this planet and not on Earth because the atmosphere is thicker and it has a thinner geosphere.
Venus
A region of rock that formed together as a single rock type.
rock formation
This scientist would study the prospect of other living organisms in space.
bioastronomist
part of the upper mantle just below the lithosphere involved in plate tectonic movement
asthenosphere
The geologic time scale has been developed through the study of rock layers and ____________.
fossils
Alfred Wegener proposed this theory which included the ancient supercontinent of Pangaea.
Continental Drift
____________ and terrae are the dark and light parts of the moon that give the lunar surface its' distinct appearance.
Maria
Wind, water or other forces that transport sediment after weathering.
erosion
A scientist studying the atmosphere and weather patterns over time.
Climatologist
Convergent plate boundaries produce this geologic landform:
mountains
These provide evidence about the past because they remain after the geologic processes that formed them stop happening.
landforms
American geophysicist Harry H. Hess created this theory to support Wegener's theory.
Seafloor Spreading
Name the 4 rocky planets in order.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
The process by which material moves under Earth's outer layer and into the mantle due to plate motion.
Geologist Tara Gerya built this to test how novae formed on planets other than Earth.
computer model