Fossils
What are bones left in the earth for millions of years called?
Fossils
What is the farthest planet from the sun?
Neptune
The third planet from the sun?
Earth
What are plate tectonics?
The movement of the crust.
What is the closest planet to the sun?
Mercury
What are scientists who study fossils called?
Paleontologists.
what are the three main types of rocks?
Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary.
what is the name of the closest galaxy?
The Andromeda Galaxy.
What is the most dangerous thing in the universe.
Black hole
Anything can go faster than light with enough power.
(True or False)
False
This principle states that in undisturbed sedimentary rock, the oldest layers are at the bottom
Law of Superposition
Known for its extensive ring system, this planet is less dense than water.
Saturn
This region, located beyond Neptune's orbit, is home to dwarf planets like Pluto.
The Kuiper Belt
He is the scientist who first proposed the Theory of Continental Drift in 1912
Alfred Wegener
This percentage of the solar system's mass is in the sun
99%
This term refers to when minerals replace the dead cells of an organism and slowly turn it into a rocklike fossil.
Petrified
This planet has the highest surface temperature due to a greenhouse effect.
Venus
Fusion, the process that powers stars, involves changing hydrogen into this element.
Helium
This is the specific process where one denser plate is forced underneath another plate at a convergent boundary.
subduction
What are Saturn’s rings made of?
Ice and rocks
These represent an organism's behavior, such as footprints or burrows, rather than its body.
Trace fossils
These four planets are known as the "gas giants."
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
What is the theoretical opposite of the most dangerous thing in the universe?
White hole
What are plate tectonics? (in depth.)
The scientific theory that Earth’s solid outer shell (lithosphere) is divided into several large, rigid slabs, or plates, that glide slowly over a hotter, deformable mantle layer(asthenosphere).
This planet has a day that is longer than its year.
Venus