He ROCKS in the treetops all day long!
What are rocks?
Plates that are underneath the Earth's crust and move around on the top layer. Can result in earthquakes, tsunamis, mountains, etc.
What are tectonic plates?
The discovery and exploration of structures in outer space by growing space technology.
What is space exploration?
Formed 4.5 billion years ago when a meteor hit the Earth and a piece fall away
What is the moon?
True/False: The amount of water the Earth has is not the same and is decreasing because of global warming.
What is False?
A diagram that describes how one type of rock can be altered into another.
Uneven heating of the mantle or the cycling of heat that results in the movement of plates.
What is convection currents?
Powerful engines that are used to send objects such as satellites and space probes
What are rockets?
The moon has how many phases and it lasts how many days to transition through all the phases.
What is 8 phases and 29.5 days?
The settling of sediment after it has eroded
What is deposition?
What are igneous, metaphoric, and sedimentary?
The process by which water moves through the Earth and the atmosphere. Can be described with words such as evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff.
What is the water cycle?
Anything that revolves around a plant or object. Can tell us weather patterns and take pictures of the Earth!
What is a satellite?
What is "there is no water, gravity, weather/climate"? What is "it can be extremely hot and cold on parts of the moon"?
The average weather conditions of an area over a longer period of time in terms of temperature and rainfall.
What is climate?
The process of breaking down rocks into smaller fragments and then the removal of those rocks from one location to another (Hint: 2 different vocabulary words)
What is weathering and erosion?
The layers of the Earth.
What is the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust?
A combination of a lab and living quarters (i.e. apartment/bedroom) in space for astronauts.
What is the space station?
The first 4 phases of the moon:
What are new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, and waxing gibbous?
The process where water changes from the liquid to the gas state
What is evaporation?
An imprint or leftover remains that can be buried under years of soil. A law states that the older substances are farther underground and younger substances aren't.
Created by a German scientists he believed that the continentals were one huge landmass called Pangea and slowly drifted apart of the years
What is continental drift?
When the Sun, Moon, and Earth formed
The last 4 phases of the moon:
What is a full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, and waxing crescent?
The 6 types of climates used to describe Earth
What is tropical, polar, continental, dry, mild, and high elevation?