Plate Tectonics
Supercontinent that contained nearly all the landmass on Earth
What is Pangea?
Causes day and night
What is rotation of Earth on its axis?
Number of phases in the lunar cycle
What is 8?
A high tide
What is when the tide is at its greatest elevation?
Name of Earth's galaxy
What is the Milky Way?
The features of Earth's crust formed by divergent boundaries
What are volcanoes?
Causes Earths changes in seasons
What is Earth's tilt?
The meaning of "waxing"
What is getting brighter?
A low tide
What is when the tide level is at its lowest elevation?
The largest star in the Milky Way
What is the Sun?
The plate boundary that occurs at the San Andres fault line
What is transform?
The number of rotations that occur in one year
What is 365?
There are changes in the moon's appearance throughout the month
What is the visible part of the moon that reflects light from the sun?
Spring tides occur
What is when the sun, earth, and moon line up with each other during the new and full moon phases?
A nebula is
What is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space?
An area of land where the surface and groundwater drains into a particular body of water separated from each other by drainage divides
What is a watershed?
The season that the southern hemisphere experiences when tilted towards the sun
What is summer?
The phase of the moon that occurs before New Moon
What is waning crescent?
Neap tides occur
What is when the sun, earth, and moon form a 90 degree angle during the first and last quarter moon phases?
The type of star the sun is
What is a main sequence star?
A topographic map is
What is a map that shows changes in elevation of Earth's surface?
The season of the northern hemisphere when the southern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun
What is summer?
The phases of the moon in order starting with New Moon
What is New Moon, Waxing Crescent, 1st quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, 3rd quarter, Waning Crescent?
Tides are caused by
What is the moon's gravitational pull?
A black hole is
What is a dense place in space that create deep gravity sinks?