Stars & Galaxies
The units the HR Diagram graphs.
What is luminosity and temperature?
The person who proposed the tectonic plate theory.
Who is Alfred Wegner?
The purpose of lines on topographic maps.
What is the show of change in elevation?
The source of energy that drives convection in the atmosphere and ocean.
What is the sun?
Movement that causes day and night.
What is rotation?
Determines the life cycle of a star.
What is mass?
Evidence that supports the tectonic plate theory.
What are the distribution of similar fossils on different continents, the occurrence of earthquakes and continental and ocean floor features including mountains, volcanoes, faults, and trenches?
How topographic maps show how far distance between lines are.
What are contour intervals?
Type of front that is less dense than the other.
What are warm fronts?
Movement that is recorded as years.
What is revolution?
The first two stages of a star's life.
What are the nebula and protostar stages?
The reason why scientists rejected the plate tectonic theory.
What is he did not provide evidence or an example of something that could have enough force to move something so large?
The description of an index line.
What is every fifth line that is bolded and labeled?
The type of pressure system that cause clouds.
What are low pressure systems?
Causes the seasons of Earth.
What is the tilt of Earth and revolution around the Sun?
The three types of galaxies.
What are spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies?
The number of tectonic plates
What is seven?
How topographic maps show depressions.
What are hachured contour lines pointing inwards?
Causes winds and ocean currents.
What is uneven heating from the sun causing convection in the atmosphere and ocean?
The number of days each lunar cycle lasts for.
What is 29.5 days?
Process that fuels stars.
What is nuclear fusion?
The names of the tectonic plates.
What is African, Antarctic, Eurasian, North American, South American, Pacific, and Indo-Australian?
How topographic maps show river direction.
What are v's the river goes through out of the "mouth"?
The four types of weather fronts.
What are cold fronts warm fronts stationary fronts, and occluded fronts?
The position the moon and sun are during neap tides.
What are right angles?