☀️ Sun & Space
This is the center and hottest part of the Sun.
What is the core?
This rock type forms from compacted and cemented sediments.
What is sedimentary rock?
This is the shallow, gently sloping part of the ocean floor closest to a continent.
What is the continental shelf?
This instrument measures the amount of rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
This layer is where almost all of Earth's weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
This layer of the Sun carries energy toward the surface through rising and sinking material.
What is the convection zone?
This process changes sediment into sedimentary rock through pressure and cementing.
What is compaction and cementation?
These tides happen when the Sun and Moon pull at right angles to each other.
What are neap tides?
This instrument shows the direction the wind is coming from.
What is a wind vane?
This part of a hurricane surrounds the eye and contains the strongest winds.
What is the eyewall?
This reddish layer of the Sun is located just above the photosphere.
What is the chromosphere?
This type of rock forms when existing rock is changed by heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
This steep drop follows the continental shelf and leads toward the deep ocean floor.
What is the continental slope?
This is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area.
What is climate?
This atmospheric layer is where many meteors burn up.
What is the mesosphere?
This outer layer of the Sun extends far into space and is easiest to see during a total solar eclipse.
What is the corona?
This molten rock is called this when it is still below Earth's surface.
What is magma?
This flat, deep part of the ocean floor covers large areas of the ocean basin.
What is the abyssal plain?
This weather instrument measures humidity in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
This scale uses ratings from EF0 to EF5.
What is the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale?
⭐ DAILY DOUBLE: These darker, cooler areas can appear on the Sun's photosphere.
What are sunspots? ⭐
This rock forms when lava cools at Earth's surface.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
This underwater feature forms a deep, narrow depression in the ocean floor.
What is an ocean trench?
⭐ DAILY DOUBLE: These imaginary lines help scientists describe the tropical, temperate, and polar climate zones based on distance from the equator.
What is latitude? ⭐
This type of severe storm begins over warm tropical ocean water and has a low-pressure center.
What is a hurricane?