Planets and Celestial Objects
This is the force that holds all objects in the solar system orbiting the Sun.
What is gravity?
This is the only habitable planet in our solar system.
What is Earth?
This is the name of the scientist that proposed a theory that the continents were slowly drifting apart.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This is a boundary between two plates that will cause earthquakes.
What is a transform boundary?
This is the name for water that is stored below Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
This planet is in the habitable zone and is sometimes referred to as the "Red Planet."
What is Mars?
This habitable zone characteristic is a term is used to describe how close a planet is to its star.
What is proximity?
These were found to be the same age and structure, providing evidence that they were most likely formed by the same event.
What are rock formations?
These are used as evidence for convergent boundaries on continents.
What are mountains?
This is a small body of water that flows into a larger body of water.
What is a tributary?
This is an object made of ice and rock that revolves around the Sun, between Mars and Jupiter.
What is an asteroid?
This habitable zone characteristic shields a planet from space debris.
What is the Ozone Layer?
These were found in the arctic. Although they wouldn't have lived there, they definitely would have died there.
What are tropical plant fossils?
Volcanoes and volcanic islands can be found, providing evidence of this groundbreaking process.
What is subduction?
This is a water-bearing rock that can be used if we run out of drinking water.
What is an aquifer?
This planet is the hottest planet in our solar system, and is sometimes referred to as "Earth's Twin."
What is Venus?
This habitable zone characteristic is the most important of all the characteristics. Although you might find it in three different states, only one of them really matters!
What is liquid water?
This is the scientist who discovered that there were different stripes at the bottom of the ocean, due to reversals in Earth's magnetic poles over time.
Who is Harry Hess?
This is the name of the land feature that forms where two oceanic plates separate from one another.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
*sea-floor spreading and ocean basin are also acceptable responses*
This is the word used to describe how water seeps into the ground to recharge the water supply.
What is percolation?
This object can be found orbiting near the edge of our solar system, but sometimes takes a journey towards the Sun. You'll recognize it by its icy tail.
What is a comet?
This habitable zone characteristic controls most of the other characteristics.
*controls the temperature, the presence of water vaper, and keeps space debris away*
This provided evidence that the sea floor was spreading, giving a mechanism for the continents drifting.
What is younger crust in the center and older (identical aged) crust near the shore?
These are the 3 major types of boundaries and how they affect Earths crust.
*Must have ALL 3 correct*
What are...
Divergent creates new crust,
Transform deforms crust, and
Convergent destroys crust?
These are two reasons why runoff causes more pollution to the marine system than any other type of pollution.
What is...
It carries trash, oils, toxic chemicals, and fertilizers from the ground to the ocean?
AND
It comes from all areas of land?