Stars and Galaxies
A massive, hot, shining ball of gas?
What is a star?
The way the Earth's atmosphere behaves and changes day by day.
What is weather?
A chain or line of mountains connected together.
What is a mountain range?
Lines that run parallel around the globe, dividing the globe into flat slices; the lines never meet.
What is lines of latitude?
Names of the planets in our solar system in order from the sun.
All stars start with a core made from ______
What is hydrogen?
Name of the people who use tools to predict weather.
What is a meteorologist?
When rocks are changed by water, carbon dioxide or by organic acids.
What is chemical weathering?
Lines that run from the North to the South Pole, dividing the globe into segments, they all meet at the poles.
What are lines of longitude?
A pattern that a group of stars seems to make in the sky.
What is a constellation?
Blue giant, red giant, red dwarf and white dwarf are these.
What are types of stars?
These are formed when hot, fast, upward-moving air currents meet cold, downward-moving air currents.
What are tornados?
When rocks are fractured or broken apart.
What is physical weathering?
The beginning of a river.
What is source?
What is a nebulae?
The Milky Way is this shape.
What is spiral?
Heat from the sun, currents in the atmosphere and currents in the ocean all are factors that influence ___.
What is the Earth's climate?
The movement of particles of soil, sand or rock by wind or water to a new location.
What is erosion?
Crust, mangle, core are these.
What are layers of the earth?
A collection of all the matter, space, and energy that exists, also known as the cosmos.
What is the universe?
A body held together by gravity that is made of millions of stars, gas and dust.
What is a galaxy?
Thermosphere, metasphere, stratosphere, and troposphere are the four main layers of this.
What is our atmosphere?
What are metamorphic, sedimentary and igneous?
What are 3 main types of rock?
Rivers of moving ice.
Astronomers use this to measure distance in our solar system.
What is astronomical units?