UNIT 1: Space
This is now classified as a dwarf planet, but many still argue it should be considered a planet.
What is Pluto?
The process where any type of rock can change into another type through different processes (such as melting, cementation, etc.)
What is the Rock Cycle?
In The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William built this in order to save his village
What is a windmill?
The average weather (usually over 30 years)
What is climate?
Mr. Regan's favorite color.
What is orange?
This movement is what the Earth does around the sun.
What is a revolution?
The other name for MAGMA, but when it is on land.
What is lava?
This is the process where water falls from the sky in the form of rain, snow, or hail.
What is precipitation?
These travel around the ocean due to differences in water temperature and salinity.
What are ocean currents?
Mr. Regan's favorite NBA team
What are the Toronto Raptors?
Along with DISTANCE, this is the other factor which causes a planet to have the gravity it does.
What is mass?
This is where we would find the youngest rocks in a bunch of layers of rock.
What is the top layer?
This process turns carbon in the ground into fossil fuels over millions of years.
What is decomposition?
These are caused by earthquakes in the ocean.
What are tsunamis?
Mr. Regan's favorite animal, which lays eggs
What is a platypus?
This type of eclipse is when the Earth casts a shadow on the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
This type of rock is made when magma cools and solidifies.
What is igneous?
This step of the water cycle is when water seeps into the ground to enter the groundwater/aquifer.
What is infiltration?
These imaginary lines show how far a place is from the equator, and therefore help us determine how much sunlight a place gets.
What are lines of latitude?
Mr. Regan's favorite band
What are The Doors?
This is the correct order for the planetary bodies in a SOLAR eclipse.
What is Sun-Moon-Earth?
This is the geological law that says the rocks that are the oldest are the deepest.
What is the Law of Superposition?
Through the SHORT carbon cycle, this is how carbon stored in a plant can be released into the atmosphere.
What is consumption/respiration?
Wind, currents and even airplanes appear to travel in curved paths due to this optical illusion.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This is where Mr. Regan went to college
What is CCSU?