Minerals
Naturally occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline structure, and the same chemical composition throughout
What are the 5 characteristics of minerals?
A recognized pattern of stars in the night sky.
What is a constellation?
The number of official planets in our solar system?
What is 8?
A satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force.
What is GPS?
It is land that is raised that has sloping sides. Hills come in many sizes from small and flat to high and rolling. They also come in many forms such as prairie hills which are lush and green.
What is a hill?
Our most common mineral. It is made of the two most abundant chemical elements on Earth: oxygen and silicon.
What is quartz?
This theory says that the universe came into being from a single, unimaginably hot and dense point (aka, a singularity) more than 13 billion years ago. It didn't occur in an already existing space. Rather, it initiated the expansion—and cooling—of space itself.
What is the big bang theory?
It is one of the largest structures in our solar system—others being the Oort Cloud, the heliosphere and the magnetosphere of Jupiter. Its overall shape is like a puffed-up disk, or doughnut. Its inner edge begins at the orbit of Neptune, at about 30 AU from the Sun.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
Zero degrees latitude is the line designating the _________ and divides the Earth into two equal hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
A deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales.
What is a canyon?
In normal room conditions, this yellow mineral gives off a mild odor, resembling the smell of a lit match. However, if heated or struck, they will give off a powerful odor like rotten eggs.
What is sulfur?
A region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing — no particles or even electromagnetic radiation such as light — can escape from it. Forms when the center of a very massive star collapses in upon itself.
What is a black hole?
The largest and the most massive object in the solar system, but it is just a medium-sized star among the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
What is the sun?
Displays the arrangement of geologic features of a particular area. These features can include such things as types of rocks, faults, minerals, and groundwater.
What is a geologic map?
A long depression, or ditch, in Earth's surface. It usually lies between ranges of hills or mountains. Most are formed by rivers that erode, or wear down, soil and rocks. This process takes thousands or millions of years.
What is a valley?
A high-symmetry allotrope of carbon (C). It has a Mohs “scratch” hardness of 10, which makes it the hardest mineral known to date.
What is a diamond?
A giant cloud of dust and gas in space (acting as a nursery for new stars).
What is a nebula?
A dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune, was discovered. It was the first and largest Kuiper belt object to be discovered. After it was discovered in 1930, it was declared to be the ninth planet from the Sun. In 2006, it was no longer considered a planet and became a dwarf-planet.
What is Pluto?
A map that represents the locations of geographical features. Furthermore, these geographical features can be mountains, valleys, plain surfaces, water bodies, and many more. Refers to a graphical representation of the three-dimensional configuration of the surface of the Earth.
What is a topographic map?
This is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. A _________ differs from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is larger than a hill, typically rising at least 300 metres above the surrounding land.
What is a mountain?
A clay mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate with the chemical formula Mg3Si4O10(OH)2. In powdered form, often combined with corn starch, is used as baby powder. It is the softest mineral on Earth. The Mohs scale of hardness uses talc as its starting-point, with a value of 1.
What is Talc?
The number of named constellations there are (a double digit, a repdigit).
What is 88?
The fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, being larger than only Mercury.
What is Mars?
The government borders for countries, states and counties, as well as the location of capitals and major cities. An example is one that shows the borders of U.S. states and the location of the state capitals.
A flat, elevated landform that rises sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side. They are one of the four major landforms, along with mountains, plains, and hills. There are two kinds: dissected and volcanic.
What is a plateau?