Rocks & Minerals
This mineral makes up the sand on most of the Earth's beaches.
What is quartz?
The Sun is considered this type of celestial body
What is a star?
These plates move around on top of the asthenosphere.
What are tectonic plates?
Which of the planets is known as the "Red Planet"?
What is Mars?
This U.S. state has the most earthquakes?
What is Alaska?
This type of rock forms when magma cools and hardens and becomes a solid.
What is igneous?
What phase is the moon in if it is not visible from earth?
What is the new moon?
Scientists gave this name to the thought that all of the continents were once one single piece of land.
What is Pangea?
NASA uses these objects from space to take pictures of the solar system.
What are satellites?
What website can provide people the best information about earthquakes?
What is the USGS or U.S. Geological Survey?
This type of rock forms when pressure, temperature of chemical process change an existing rock.
What is metamorphic?
This event happens when one object in space casts a shadow onto another.
What is an eclipse?
This happens on earth when plates pull apart, squeeze together or slide past eachother.
What is an earthquake?
Pluto was removed as a regular planet and reclassified as this.
What is a dwarf planet?
A strong earthquake under the water can cause one of these to occur.
What is a tsunami?
The process by which sediment is moved from one place to another.
What is erosion?
This layer of the sun is responsible for energy travel from the radiative zone to the photosphere.
What is the Convective Zone?
Plate tectonics describe large-scale movements from what part of the earth?
What is the lithosphere?
The inward force that causes an object to move in a circular path.
What is centripetal force?
This is the point on the earth's surface directly above where an earthquake begins.
What is the epicenter?
This type of rock was used in Ancient Egypt to build the pyramids.
What is limestone?
This type of tide happens when the Sun, Moon, and Earth form a straight line.
What is a spring tide?
These are deep canyons on the sea floor.
What are ocean trenches?
This cloud is from which the solar system was formed.
What is the solar nebula?
The change of shape of a rock when it is put under tremendous pressure.
What is deformation?