The Inner Planets
The Outer Planets
Stars
Earth
Plate Tectonics
100
I am made up of a star and all the objects that orbit around it.
What is a solar system?
100
I am labeled both inner and outer, but I am still a large object that orbits a star.
What is a planet?
100
I am an object that produces it's own energy.
What is a star?
100
The central part of the Earth.
What is the Earth's core?
100
Scientist use this to explain how forces deep within the Earth can cause ocean floors to spread and continents to move.
What is plate tectonics?
200
A natural object that orbits a planet.
What is a moon?
200
Our names are Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa.
What are the Galilean moons?
200
Patterns in the stars.
What are constellations?
200
All of the Earth's liquid and solid water.
What is hydrosphere?
200
The area around a plate boundary where movement takes place.
What is a fault?
300
I am a rock that revolves around the sun.
What is an asteroid?
300
I am made up from gases, ice, dust, and rock, and one of my most famous names is Haley.
What is a comet?
300
I am an exploding star that shines brightly for days or weeks, and then fades away.
What is a supernova?
300
The thin layer of solid rock that makes up the outermost part of the Earth.
What is the Earth's crust?
300
Hot molten rock below the surface of the Earth.
What is magma?
400
I am one complete trip around the sun, and on Earth it takes me 365 days to complete.
What is a revolution around the Sun?
400
I am spherical in shape, orbit the sun, and do not clear my own orbit of smaller debris.
What is a dwarf planet?
400
I am a huge cloud of gases and dust from which a star forms.
What is a nebula?
400
The thick layer of solid and molten rock that lies around the core.
What is mantle?
400
Locations where plates move apart.
What are divergent boundaries?
500
I am a complete spin on an axis, and I happen every 24 hours on Earth.
What is a rotation?
500
Free Space: Bonus 500 pts
Free Space: Bonus 500 pts
500
A small and very dense star that shines with a cooler white light.
What is a white dwarf?
500
I make up the Earth's surface and can include rivers, mountains, lakes, caves plateaus, or valleys.
What are geological features?
500
Plate movement produce huge tilted blocks of rock that are separated from the surrounding rock by faults called...
What are fault block mountains?
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