Chapter 1
This is the name of the galaxy that we live in.
What is the Milky Way
This is the position in a solar system where life could be possible.
What is the Goldilocks or Habitable Zone.
These are the 4 main spheres of the Earth.
What are the Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, and Biosphere.
This is the art of making maps
What is Cartography.
These are the pieces that make up the Earth's crust.
What are Tectonic Plates.
This is the part of the universe that can be seen from Earth (with satellites and telescopes).
This causes the seasons.
These are the 3 main parts of the Earth (bonus point if you can name all the parts we modeled with play-doh).
What are the Core, Mantle, and Crust.
(Bonus: Inner Core, Outer Core, Lower Mantle, Upper Mantle, Crust)
These lines on a globe run East to West.
What are lines of Latitude.
These are the 3 types of rock.
What are Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic.
The Milky Way is this type of galaxy.
This is a giant invisible bubble that keeps Earth safe from the Sun's high energy particles and space radiation.
What is the Magnetosphere.
These lines are also called Meridians.
What are lines of Longitude.
Slow cooling rocks are more likely to have these types of structures in them.
What are crystals.
These are the 3 main types of galaxies.
What are spiral, elliptical, and irregular.
This is the scientific term for a planet with a rocky, solid surface.
What is terrestrial.
This is how deep humans have been able to drill into the Earth's Crust.
What is 8 miles.
(Kola superdeep borehole)
This is the city that the Prime Meridian passes through.
What is Greenwich, England.
These are 2 things that can help to create a new kind of rock.
What are temperature and pressure.
These are the 8 planets in our solar system.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
This is determined by the size of a planet, and we need it to be just right to keep air and water on the planet to live.
What is gravity.
Name one layer of the Atmosphere. (bonus point for each extra you can name)
What are the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere.
This is the special name for the Antimeridian.
What is the International Date Line.
This is the type of movement that creates volcanoes.
(Bonus point for naming the other 2 types of movement)
What is Convergence.
Divergence and Transform.