What separates the inner planets from the outer planets?
An Astroid Belt.
100
Name the four layers of soil?
Top soil, Sub soil, Transition, and Bed rock.
100
What is the weathering force that breaks rocks apart by tumbling them against each other?
What is water current.
100
What is the stress that pulls the crust apart?
Tension
100
In what month does Utah have the least number of daylight hours?
December
200
What direction does the earth revolve around the sun?
Counter Clockwise
200
True or false? Shale is a sedimentary rock?
True
200
What deposits materials of different sizes in the same place?
Glaciers
200
What is it called when stress pushes rocks in opposite directions?
Shearing
200
What is the movement of the Earth on its axis called?
Rotation
300
What planet has more gravity out of Earth, Mars and Jupiter?
Jupiter
300
What kind of rock do fossils form from?
Sedimentary Rock
300
What is it called after particles are compacted together and the liquid is slowly removed and particles are permanently sealed together in the process?
Cementation
300
What do you call a crater that is more than one mile across?
A Caldera
300
Why are there fossils of Lystrosauras on more than one continent?
Because of the continental drift.
400
What is the name of the spiral galaxy to which all of the planets, stars, and celestrial bodies belong?
The Milky Way.
400
True or false? Granite is an igneous rock.
True
400
Which weathering force breaks apart rocks by expansion and contraction?
Temperature Change.
400
What is the name of the molten rock below the earth's surface?
Magma
400
What is the cause of very old sedimentary rock to be the same thickness on all the continents?
Continental Drift
500
As the moon changes phases, it appears to change what else?
Its shape.
500
Which is a metamorphic rock?
A. Marble
B. Basalt
C. Sandstone
A. Marble
500
What are the three factors that determine the rates of weathering?
Exposure, Composition, and Climate.
500
What is a gradually sloping volcano created by low viscosity lava that flows long distances called?
A Shield Volcano.
500
What is happening to the planet earth over the years?