The age of the earth
4.5-4.6 billion years old
The official name of our sun (Hint: its the word for sun in Spanish)
Sol
What the hydrosphere is
All of the water on earth
What type of rock forms from magma cooling
Igneous Rock
The name when two boundaries punch into each other
Convergent Boundaries
The hottest planet in our solar system
Venus
What happens in the core of a star in order for it to stay alive
Nuclear fusion
The physical feature separates two streams of water
Divide
The 3 types of rock
Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary
When two tectonic plates slide by each other
Transform boundary
The two planets next to the asteroid belt
Mars and Jupiter
The element a star burns to until it starts to die
Iron
Define the watershed
All of the water in a stream
What causes metamorphic rocks to form.
Heat and pressure
What it’s called when one plat slides under another
Subduction
The name/title of planets made of gaseous mass
Gas Giants
What class is our star?
G
The two zones for groundwater and what separates them
Zone of aeration, zone of saturation, and water table
What type of rocks can become other types
All of them
Why does seafloor spreading happen
Two convergent boundaries collide and produce magma that flows downward and pushes sediment backwards
The name of the cloud beyond the 8 main planets and Pluto.
Oort Cloud
What are all the letters for classifying stars
O, B, A, F, G, K, and M
The cone that forms from drawing water through a well
Cone of depression
The weakest type of rock
Sedimentary
What scale is used to measure earthquakes
The Richter Scale