Space Systems
The HR Diagram can be found on this page of the reference tables.
What is Page 4?
This is the name of the moon phase when the moon is aligned between us (Earth) and the Sun.
What is a New Moon?
Felsic rocks can usually be easily identified by looking for this obvious characteristic.
What is light color?
We can rub a mineral along a ceramic plate and see what color powder it leaves behind to determine this mineral characteristic.
What is streak?
This is the measure of how circular or ovular an orbit is shaped.
What is eccentricity?
As the sun ages, the amount of this element will increase due to nuclear fusion.
What is helium?
This is the age of our solar system.
What is 4.6 billion years?
Sedimentary rocks are formed through these 2 processes.
What are compaction and cementation?
DAILY DOUBLE:
This is the name given to solids that form out of solution.
What are precipitates?
This rock is actually felsic, despite its dark black glassy appearance.
What is obsidian?
A star with a surface temperature of 10,000K and a luminosity 105 times greater than the sun would be in this category of stars.
What are Supergiants?
What is weaker gravitational attraction?
According to Bowen's Reaction Series, this mineral is the last mineral to crystallize as magma cools.
What is quartz?
This is a non-metallic mineral, softer than glass, with cleavage in 3 directions at 90 degrees.
What is halite?
This limitation of the Sun prevents it from fusing any elements heavier than oxygen.
What is low mass?
This characteristic of a star determines whether it will become a giant or a supergiant.
What is mass?
This is the reason we only ever see one side of the moon.
What are equal rates of rotation and revolution?
Large crystals in an igneous rock most likely form as a result of this.
What is slow rate of cooling OR they formed intrusively?
A mineral's physical characteristics, such as hardness or cleavage, are dependent on this.
What is the internal arrangement of atoms?
Cosmic microwave background radiation, one of the biggest pieces of evidence for the Big Bang, was accidentally discovered by Penzias and Wilson in this US State.
What is New Jersey?
This is the name of the phenomenon that causes galaxies moving away from us to appear redshifted.
What is the doppler effect?
This is the name given to when the Sun, Earth, and moon align on the same axis, causing more extreme high and low tides.
What are spring tides?
Compared to felsic igneous rocks, mafic igneous rocks contain greater amounts of this element.
What is Iron OR Magnesium OR Calcium?
This characteristic of coal is why it can not be considered a mineral.
What is organic?
FINAL JEOPARDY:
Aldebaran is the bright, fiery angry eye of this zodiacal constellation.
What is Taurus the Bull?