Planets
I am made up of a star and all the objects that orbit around it.
What is a solar system?
The layer of Earth with the highest temperature and pressure
What is the inner core?
The moon phase with the most amount of sunlight directed at it.
What is the full moon?
Scientists use this to explain how forces deep within the Earth can cause ocean floors to spread and continents to move.
What is plate tectonics?
The spacial object that causes tides
What is the moon?
A natural object that orbits a planet.
What is a moon?
The two types of crust on the Earth's surface are continental and _________
What is the oceanic crust?
The 2nd moon phase.
What is the waxing crescent?
The area around a plate boundary where movement takes place.
What is a fault?
Moon phases at which spring tides occur
What are the full and new moon phases?
I am a full trip around the sun and on Earth, it takes 365 days to complete.
What is a REVOLUTION around the sun?
The thickest layer of the Earth
What is the mantle?
The number of days it takes for a full moon cycle to be completed.
What is 29 1/2 days or a month?
Hot molten rock below the surface of the Earth.
What is magma?
Moon phases at which neap tides occur
What are the 1st quarter and 3rd quarter moon phases?
I am made up of gasses, ice, dust, and rock, and one of my most famous names is Haley.
What is a comet?
The only fully liquid layer in the Earth
What is the outer core?
The word for when the light on the moon is decreasing.
What is waning?
Locations where plates move apart.
What are divergent boundaries?
The number of neap + spring tides each month
What is 4?
Our names are Europa, Io, and Ganymede and we are all classified under one thing.
What are the Galilean/Jupiter moons?
The layer that causes tectonic plates to move
What is the asthenosphere?
The number of days it takes for the moon phases to move from one to the next.
What is about 4 days?
Plate movement produces huge tilted blocks of rock that are separated from the surrounding rock by faults called...
What are fault-block mountains?
The tides are caused by...
What are the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the moon & sun and the rotation of the Earth?