Earth
The amount of time it takes for the Earth to revolve around the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days?
The sun is also called this.
A star.
The moon takes this long to revolve around the Earth.
This layer of the Earth is the thinnest.
What is the crust?
Plates move together.
What are convergent boundaries?
The amount of time it takes for the Earth to make one full rotation on its axis.
True or False. The sun is the smallest object in the solar system.
What is false.
The moon revolves around this.
What is the Earth?
The innermost layers of the Earth are composed mostly of this.
What is iron and nickel?
Plates move apart.
What are divergent boundaries?
How far is Earth from the Sun? (km)
What is 150 kilometers?
The sun is about ____ times the diameter of the Earth.
What is 110?
The moon is in this phase when it is fully lit.
What is a full moon?
The outer two layers are composed primarily of this.
What is rocky material?
Plates slip past each other horizontally
What are transform boundaries?
Earth experiences seasons because of this.
What is its tilt on its axis?
The sun is ______ years old.
What is 4.6 billion years old?
When the moon is blocking the sun, the moon experiences this moon phase.
What is a new moon?
What are the four layers of the Earth?
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
What is strike-slip or sliding boundaries?
These two philosophers believed that the Earth was the center of the solar system
What is Aristotle and Ptolemy?
This philosopher placed the sun at the center of the Earth.
Who is Copernicus?
The moon gets its light from this.
What is the sun?
Pressure and temperature increase or decrease with depth beneath Earth's surface?
What is increase?
Earth's tectonic plates move because of this type of energy.