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Earth's Process
Tectonics Etc.
Weather
Rocks :)
Outer Space
100
The process of rocks breaking apart.
What is weathering?
100
The theory that the continents are moving.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
100
The average temperature, humidity, and weather patterns over a period of 30 years.
What is climate.
100
A naturally occuring, inorganic solid arranged as a crystalline structure.
What is a mineral?
100
The name of the star in our solar system.
What is the sun?
200
The process of sediments actually moving to a new location.
What is erosion?
200
The name for lava before it hits the surface of the Earth.
What is magma?
200
All the gases surrounding our planet.
What is the atmosphere?
200
Rocks that are formed by the cooling of magma.
What are igneous rocks?
200
The fifth planet from the sun.
What is Jupiter?
300
A bunch of tributaries lead to streams, which then lead to a bigger body of water.
What is a stream system?
300
They are composed of a magma chamber, a vent, and a crater.
What are volcanoes?
300
The cycle of warm air rising and cool air sinking.
What is a convection current?
300
Rocks that are formed by layers of sediments being pressed together over time.
What are sedimentary rocks?
300
The two processes that create energy in any star.
What are fusion and fission?
400
Water that is underground.
What is groundwater?
400
Plate boundaries that move toward each other and create huge mountains.
What convergent boundaries?
400
The process of a thunderstorm starting to spin and destroy land.
What is a thunderstorm?
400
Rocks that are formed by heat changing them, but not actually melting.
What are metamorphic rocks?
400
Explosions on the surface of the sun that release a ton of energy.
What are solar flares?
500
Piles of sand deposited when wind speed slows.
What are sand dunes?
500
The waves of movement caused by a rock breaking on a fault line.
What is an earthquake?
500
A sloping band of sand, pebbles, or mud at the edge of the sea.
What is a beach?
500
The continual process of rocks being broken down, changed, and reformed.
What is the rock cycle?
500
A galaxy that is swirled but each arm stars out straight.
What is a barred spiral galaxy?