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Astronomy
Sun and Seasons
Keplers Law
Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics
100
The shape of the earth
What is a sphere?
100
The way the sun generates energy
What is nuclear fusion?
100
Keplers 1st Law
What is the Law of ellipses?
100
Crust, Mantle and Core
What is the layers of the earth?
100
A way that scientists were able to use as evidence of the continents moving that involved extinct animals
What is Matching fossils?
200
The spinning of the earth around its axis
What is rotation?
200
The earths atmosphere has a protective layer that protects us from the harmful radiation from the sun.
What is ozone?
200
Keplers 2nd law
What is law of equal areas?
200
Rock formed from cooling and hardening of hot molten rock, or magma
What is Igneous rock?
200
the coastlines of adjacent continents match-up similar to a puzzle
What is Continental puzzle?
300
The amount of time it takes the earth to go around the sun once
What is 365.25 days?
300
When the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator.
What is a solstice?
300
Keplers 3rd Law
What is the law of periods?
300
Rock formed by compacting and cementing of layers of sediment.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
300
States that the continents had once been joined to form a single supercontinent
What is Continental Drift?
400
The shape that the earth travels around the sun.
What is an ellipse
400
The dates that the spring equinox occurs
What is March 20 or 21?
400
Relates time period or orbit to distance of the sun.
What does the law of periods mean?
400
Rock formed by the effect of heat and pressure on other rocks
What is Metamorphic Rock?
400
The uppermost mantle, along with the overlying crust, behaves like a strong, rigid layer
What is the lithosphere?
500
When the sun is directly over the equator
What is an equinox?
500
The dates in which the summer solstice occurs.
What is June 21st or 22?
500
Planet covers equal area of ellipse in equal amount of time.
What is Law of Equal area?
500
German Scientist credited with developing the theory of continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
500
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform
What are three types of plate boundaries?