Astronomy
This is a cloud of gas and dust that formed our solar system.
What is nebula?
The closest planet to the Sun
What is Mercury
The amount of matter or stuff in an object
What is the Mass?
The term used to describe moon phases with GROWING lit area
What is a waxing
These are created on the moon by asteriod impacts
What are craters?
An educated guess
What is a hypothesis
How long it takes for the moon to orbit the earth.
What is about one month
The moon phase that is the beginning of the cycle
What is a new moon
The collection of rocks between the inner and outer planets
What is the Asteroid Belt
The term used to describe the lithospshere and the upper part of the mantle is the _____________.
What is the Athenosphere.
The heliocentric model has the ________ as the center of the solar system with all objects revolving around it.
What is the Sun?
Liters
Unit of volume
Orbiting the sun defines this time period (part a), and the correct term is ______________. (part b)
What is a year(a) and a revolution or revolving (b)
The smallest planet in our solar system
What is Mercury
Moon phase where 3/4 of moon is visible
What is gibbous?
The terrestrial planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
Which is bigger, our galaxy or solar system.
What is our galaxy?
The unit for density
g/ml or g/cm3
The time it takes for a planet to rotate once on its axis.
What is about one day
The largest planet in our solar system
What is Jupiter
0 degrees longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
The variable that is changed.
What is the independent variable?
The theory that states that continents are continually moving is called?
What is Continental Drift
The closer the contour lines, the _______ hill
steeper
This occurs when earht's shadow is projected onto the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse.
The gas giants are.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
The layer that is liquid iron and nickel.
What is outer core?
A moon that is getting smaller, and only a c-shape is visible
What is a waning crescent?
_____________________ causes hot magma to rise and cool, allowing tectonic plates to move..
What are convection currents?
The what types of boundaries create volcanoes (be specific)
Convergent (oceanic and continental)