Space Exploration (Interstellar)
What does AU stand for?
What is Astronomical Unit?
The fruit used in The Core to represent Earth.
What is a peach?
The place where Jackson took his family to vacation/camp at the beginning of 2012.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
Molten rock on the surface after an eruption.
What is lava?
The type of storm which occurred in Japan in The Day After Tomorrow?
What is a hail storm?
The age of the Universe.
What is 14 billion years?
The location where the characters in The Core entered the Earth. Also the deepest place in the world.
What is Marianas Trench?
How Jackson, his family, and other people survived at the end of 2012.
What is The Ark?
The name of the organization Harry works for in Dante's Peak.
What is the USGS?
The two major elements the atmosphere is composed of.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
The name of the galaxy we belong to.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
The part of the core that spins faster than the whole planet.
What is Earth’s inner core?
The man who proposed the continental drift hypothesis in 1912.
Who is Alfred Wagner?
The volcanic hazard that occurs pyroclastic flow meets a river, a snowbank, or glacier. Can carry huge boulders for tens of kms.
What is a lahar?
Global warming led to this at the end of The Day After Tomorrow.
What is global cooling?
The name of the black hole in Interstellar.
What is Gargantua?
The current polarity of the North Pole.
What is South polarity?
The type of plate boundary which produced the mid-Atlantic ridge.
What is a divergent boundary?
What is volcanic ash?
The process driven by temperature and salinity (density) differences. Creates ocean circulation.
What is Thermohaline Circulation?
The reason the main characters spun the Endurance after leaving Earth.
What is escaping Earth's gravitational pull? OR What is creating artificial gravity?
The planet with the strongest magnetic field?
What is Jupitor?
Created in huge quantities by the Sun and in nuclear fusion reactions. Responsible for heating up the earth's core in 2012.
What are neutrinos?
Type of lava that produces the most explosive eruptions. Example: Yellowstone
What are rhyolitic lavas?
What is the Iceberg Calving Process?