Rocks
This is the rock formed from cooled magma.
What is igneous rock?
These are the machines that explore Mars and report data back to Scientists.
What are rovers?
This grand landform is caused by a steep stream of water that carves a deep valley in the land.
What is a canyon?
This is the second planet from the Sun.
What is Venus?
These are the three plate boundaries in the world.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform?
These are the three types of rock formations we know.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
This is the name of the largest mountain in the entire Solar System, found on Mars!
What is Olympus Mons?
This landform is defined as "a steep face of rock and soil"
What is a cliff?
Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, and Saturn are classified as this type of planet because they are made up of ice and chemicals.`
What are gas giants?
Mesosaurus literally means...
What is "middle lizard"?
Compaction and cementation forms what type of rock?
What is sedimentary rock?
This is what happens to a stream when it travels down to a steeper slope.
What is cut deeper and move faster?
A large body of water surrounded by land on all sides.
What is a lake?
Planets move around the Sun in this shape.
What is an ellipse?
This is the name for the chain of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
These are the two terms that mean rock is being moved up or down.
What are subduction and uplift?
Channels formed by water carry sediment to the mouth of the stream, forming this shape at the end.
What is an alluvial fan?
This is the material that Devil's Tower is made of.
What is igneous rock? (Intrusive rock that appeared when the sediment around it weathered and eroded away)
This is the University that Newton worked at and attended in the 17th century.
What is Cambridge? (Trinity also accepted)
When plates split apart, they create this landform of underwater mountains along the boundary.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
Igneous rock can be formed two ways: when magma cools in Earth's interior and when it cools on Earth's surface. The two terms that distinguish these rocks are...
What are intrusive and extrusive?
Name and EXPLAIN one reason as to why Mars is being explored by scientists today.
What is...
Acceptable answer: geographic evidence of water might signify earlier signs of life.
A large and flat area of land.
What are plains?
This scientist proved that the Solar System is heliocentric, not geocentric.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This was the name of the supercontinent that existed BEFORE Pangaea. (Hint: We cut it out and pasted it in our notebooks)
What is Gondwanaland?