Terrestrial Planets
This negative topological feature on Mars is caused by subsurface CO2 sublimating and rupturing the ice.
What are spiders?
[Terrestrial planets, slide 30]
This planet has a day that is longer than its year.
What is Venus?
[Terrestrial planets, slide 69]
This is the most abundant type of mineral in space, accounting for 90%wt of the Earth's crust.
What are silicates?
[Interiors and Surfaces, slide 8]
This part of the Earth is solid rock and convects slowly.
What is the mantle?
[Interiors and Surfaces, slide 24]
These two planets may have traded places.
What are Neptune and Uranus?
[Gas & Ice Giants, slide 7]
These are the three boundaries at plate margins.
What is divergent, convergent, and transform?
[Terrestrial planets, slide 10]
This feature is indicative of liquid moving around a surface, and is found on Earth where rivers meet seas.
What is a delta?
[Terrestrial Bodies, slide 19]
This is the term for a mineral that has a high melting temperature and, therefore, is the first to crystalize.
What is mafic?
[Interiors and Surfaces, slide 16]
This moon experiences extrusive volcanism and is the most volcanic due to tidal heating.
What is Io?
[Interiors and Surfaces, slide 45]
This planet radiates 10x more intrinsic power than Uranus.
What is Neptune?
[Gas & Ice Giants, slide 19]
What is crater dating?
[Terrestrial planets, slide 47]
This is the equilibrium temperature of Venus.
What is 230K?
[Terrestrial planets, slide 73]
This type of rock is also known as "intrusive" and the crystals inside can be seen without a microscope.
What is plutonic?
[Interiors and Surfaces, slide 18]
This type of volcanism occurs when magma rises and accumulates below the crust.
What is intrusive vulcanism?
[Interiors and Surfaces, slide 39]
This planet has the second largest magnetic field in the solar system.
What is Saturn?
[Gas & Ice Giants, slide 54]
The surface of Mars exists near this point on the water phase diagram, meaning it is unlikely to find liquid water on the surface of Mars.
What is the triple point?
[Terrestrial planets, slide 23]
These three things are required to create a core dynamo.
What is rotation, convection, and electrical conductance?
[Terrestrial planets, slide 37]
This type of deposition is caused by a river or stream moving particles.
What is fluvial deposition?
[Interiors and Surfaces, slide 60]
This term is the boundary between the crust and mantle.
What is Moho, or the Mohorovičić discontinuity?
[Interiors and Surfaces, slide 26]
These are the three requirements of a dynamo.
What are an electrically conductive medium, convection, and kinetic energy from the planet's rotation?
[Gas & Ice Giants, slide 51]
The majority of Earth's crust is made of these two elements.
What is oxygen and silicon?
[Terrestrial planets, slide 6]
This geological feature is a thrust fault and was most likely caused by Mercury's cooling.
What are scarps?
[Terrestrial planets, slide 65]
Granite is this type of rock.
What is an igneous, plutonic, felsic rock?
[Interiors and Surfaces, slide 18]
This term represents the balance between the buoyancy force of the mantle pushing the plate up, and the gravitational force pushing it down.
What is isostatic equilibrium?
[Interiors and Surface, slide 53]
These are the building blocks of a terrestrial planet's magnetosphere.
What are a bow shock, magnetosheath, magnetopause, magnetotail, and plasmasphere?
[Gas & Ice Giants, slide 48]