Miscellaneous
What is a satellite?
An object that orbits another
Which small objects (not a planet) in the solar system is made up of a loose ball of ice and rock and develops a tail
Comet
What causes a fault in Earth's crust?
Stress
What is the sun made up of?
Gas (bonus 100: hydrogen and helium)
What is a nebula made up of?
A cloud of gas and dust
What does it mean if a moon is waning?
It looks like it is shrinking/getting smaller
How long does one revolution of the Earth take?
365 days/1year
How do tectonic plates move at a convergent boundary?
Towards each other
What is the process that the sun uses to make energy?
Nuclear fusion
What does the color of a star tell you?
The approximate surface temperature
What do you call a small rock that has fallen through Earth's atmosphere and hit the ground?
Meteorite
The only liquid layer of the Earth.
Mantle
What type of seismic wave is slower?
S-wave
What is the centermost part of the sun that is extremely hot and produces enormous amounts of energy?
The core
What two things does the brightness of a star depend on?
Size and Temperature
What do you call a tide that has a small difference between high and low tide?
Neap tide
What do you call a meteoroid that has hit the Earth's surface?
A meteorite
In subduction does the oceanic or continental crust go underneath?
Oceanic
Which layer of the sun's atmosphere emits a reddish glow?
The chromosphere
What is happening to nuclear fusion during the Red Giant phase?
It is slowing down/running out of fuel
What makes tectonic plates move?
Convection currents
What do you call our model of the solar system that has the sun at the center with the planets going around it?
Heliocentric
What are the three types of stress? (all three must be correct!)
Tension, compression, shearing
What is a solar prominence?
When loops of plasma extend out of the sun and connect sunspots
Which stars turn into white dwarves and which turn into black holes?
Average size: white dwarf, Large/Giant: black hole