Observable Universe
The Name of the Galaxy that we live in.
What is the Milky Way?
The Sphere that includes all the solid surface of the Earth down to the core at the center of the Earth.
What is the Geosphere?
A tool to help people navigate areas that are new to them.
What is a map?
Weathering that happens when rocks are broken into smaller pieces and the only thing that chagnes is the sized and shape.
What is physical? (mechanical)
The four phases of water.
What are liquid, solid, and gas?
The 3 different types of galaxies we learned about.
What is elliptical, spiral, and irregular?
The Sphere that includes all of the water in, on and above the Earth.
What is the Hydrosphere?
A term that means half a sphere.
What is a hemisphere?
The process or breaking down material such as soil or rock.
What is weathering?
What is glacier calving? (or iceberg calving)
The branch of sciences that studies the observable universe.
What is Astronomy?
The sphere that includes all living things.
What is the Biosphere?
Imaginary vertical map lines that start at the North Pole, cross the equator, and end at the South Pole.
What are lines of longitude?
The movement of sediment that was broken down during weathering.
What is erosion?
The cycle of Earth's water constantly evaporating and condensing.
What is the water cycle?
A group of billions of starts, planets, dust, and gas all moving together.
What is a galaxy?
The sphere that includes all of the gases surrounding the Earth.
Points out the directions of north, south, east, and west.
What is a compass rose?
The dropping of sediment in a new location.
What is deposition?
Frozen ocean water.
What is sea ice?
Another planet that is capable of supporting life.
What is none?
The 3 main parts of the geosphere.
What are the core, mantle, and crust?
The person who creates maps.
What is a cartographer?
When 2 continental plates __________ an earthquake can occur.
What is transform? (rub together)
When ice turns directly into gas.
What is sublimation?