Week 9
This is the National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration is US government agency that is responsible for science and technology related to air and space- began Oct 1, 1958.
What is NASA?
This is the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle
What is the lithosphere?
This is where 2 plates slide horizontally past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
This is the point on Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s starting point, or focus.
What is the epicenter?
This is the process on or below Earth’s surface that changes rock from one form to another.
What is the rock cycle?
This is a space observatory that opens a wide window on the universe- created by NASA
What is the Fermi Gamma-ray telescope?
This is the layer of rock between the Earth’s crust and core and it is the thickest layer.
What is the mantle?