Out of this World
This type of space debris is incorrectly referred to as a shooting star.
What is a Meteor?
This color hole was first photographed by Katie Bourman in 2019 and this is the first image of such space phenomena known to man.
Luster is the way in which a mineral refracts light, this type of luster is found in minerals such as Copper and Nickel.
What is Metallic?
This layer of Earth's interior takes up approximately 84% of Earth's total volume.
What is the Mantle?
Rocks, such as metamorphic rocks, are able to change shape from these two factors being extreme.
The speed of light is used to measure distance in space, this is how long it takes for light to reach Earth at the speed of light.
What is 8 minutes?
As planets move further out in space this color shift is seen from the wavelengths in between the astronomer and planet.
This result of plate tectonics is caused by convection currents rising due to the creation of magma in the ocean floor and mantle.
What are Ocean Ridges?
This layer is second in the building of Earth's core and is made up of liquid Iron and Nickel.
These types of rocks aren't as accurate for relative rock dating as they are composed of many minerals tightly packed together.
What are Sedimentary Rocks?
We know the planet closest to the Sun is Mercury, however, this planet is the hottest at 847 degrees Fahrenheit.
These three colors are utilized in the astrological plotting on the H-R Diagram.
What are Red, White, and Blue?
This type of fossil is designated as a marker of a time period when used for relatively dating other fossils in other time periods.
What is an Index Fossil?
This compositional layer of Earth is the most buoyant rock layer and is the name for the outer perimeter of a pizza.
What is the Crust?
This plate boundary is responsible for the formation of the mountains on Earth and is caused by the colliding of plates at the edges.
The abbreviations I.S.S. refers to this organization conducting useful climate change research.
This color, which is also a mineral, is found after stars explode and faint into low mass Supernovae.
What is Silver?
This diagram is the most helpful as it categorizes stars by their luminosity and temperature in relation to main-sequence stars.
What is the H-R Diagram?
The center of Earth's core is named this and is the hottest with a temperature of 5,200 degrees Celsius.
What is the Inner Core?
THese rocks are mainly found buried below Earth's surface and are formed from molten material that has cooled.
What are Igneous Rocks?
The galaxy our planet resides in is named this, it is known by a shared name with a famous chocolate treat.
What is Milky Way?
This color is akin to this specific color as it describes the Jurassic period, even on the Geologic Time Scale.
What is Green?
Layers of rock pack onto each other as time goes on but this specific type of unconformity in rock layers is found in the Grand Canyon.
It is too hot to explore Earth's core with a human presence so we use this type of wave to analyze the inner workings of Earth's interior.
What are Seismic Waves?
This law states that if there is an intrusion in a rock the material that intrudes is younger than the rock or mineral it intrudes upon.
What is the Law of Cross-Cutting Relationships?