Earth & Space

Question 1

What are the three layers of the earth?

Answer 1

Crust, Mantle, Core

Question 2

What does the mantle consists of?

Answer 2

Iron, Magnesium, Calcium

Question 3

What is the length of mantle?

Answer 3

3,500 Kilometer thick

Question 4

What is the core?

Answer 4

Center of the earth

Question 5

What are the two parts of the core?

Answer 5

Liquid Outer Core, Solid Inner Core

Question 6

What is more dense the core or mantle?

Answer 6

Core

Question 7

The inner crust temperature is?

Answer 7

3,000 to 4,000 C

Question 8

What is the upper part of mantle and crust?

Answer 8

Lithosphere

Question 9

The lithosphere consist of approximately 30 separate pieces called?

Answer 9

Plates

Question 10

What is the asthenosphere?

Answer 10

the upper layer of the earth’s mantle

Question 11

Along the edges of these plates are called?

Answer 11

Fault Lines

Question 12

What are fault lines?

Answer 12

places where the plates slide relative to each other

Question 13

What two scales do scientists use to measure the intensity of a earthquake?

Answer 13

Richter Scale & Moment magnitude scale

Question 14

How is igneous rock formed?

Answer 14

Formed from the hardening of molten rock, or magma.

Question 15

How is sedmintary rocks formed?

Answer 15

Formed by the sedimation, or gradual depositing, of small bits of rock, clay, and other materials

Question 16

What is also found in sedimentary rocks?

Answer 16

Fossils

Question 17

How is metamorphic rocks formed?

Answer 17

Formed when exisitng rock material is altered through temperature, pressure, or chemical processes.

Question 18

What are some examples of igneous rocks?

Answer 18

Granite, Pumice, Basalt, Obsidian

Question 19

What are some examples of sedimentary rocks?

Answer 19

Shale, Sandstone, Gypsum, dolomite, coal

Question 20

What are some examples of Metamorphic rocks?

Answer 20

Marble, slate, gneiss, quartzite

Question 21

What is the precambrian eon?

Answer 21

The period before the fossil record began

Question 22

What is another name for the water cycle?

Answer 22

Hydrologic Cycle

Question 23

What is meterology?

Answer 23

The study of the weather

Question 24

What is the troposphere?

Answer 24

Lowest level of the atmosphere, where all weather takes place

Question 25

What is the stratosphere?

Answer 25

Above the troposphere where airflow is mostly horizontally.

Question 26

The thin ozone layer is in?

Answer 26

The upper stratosphere

Question 27

What is the mesosphere?

Answer 27

Above the stratosphere

Question 28

What is thermosphere?

Answer 28

the height at which the atmosphere ceases to have the properties of a continuous medium.

Question 29

What is a warm front?

Answer 29

When a warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass

Question 30

What is a cold front?

Answer 30

When cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass

Question 31

What is stationary front?

Answer 31

WHen two air masses meet and neither is displaced

Question 32

What type of weather is caused by stationary fronts?

Answer 32

Cloudy, wet weather that can last a week

Question 33

What is a stratus cloud?

Answer 33

Are low hanging, broad, flat clouds that blanket the sky.

Question 34

Stratus clouds that are on the ground is basically?

Answer 34

Fog

Question 35

Dark Stratus Clouds means?

Answer 35

Its going to rain soon

Question 36

What is cumulus clouds?

Answer 36

massive clouds, that are puffy like popcorn with relatively flat bottoms and round tops.

Question 37

What is Cirrus clouds?

Answer 37

are thin, wipsy clouds that occur much higher in the atmosphere, at elevations of 20,000 feet.

Question 38

What is the sun classified as?

Answer 38

G2V Star or Yellow Dwarf star

Question 39

What is the diameter of the sun?

Answer 39

1.4 million km

Question 40

What are the 4 terrestrial planets?

Answer 40

Mercury,Venus,Earth, Mars

Question 41

What are the two planets that have moons in terrestrial planets?

Answer 41

Earth & Mars

Question 42

What are the outer planets?

Answer 42

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Question 43

What is a meteoriod?

Answer 43

Smaller fragments of asteroids and particles shed by comets

Question 44

What are meteors?

Answer 44

meteroids when they fall into the earths gravitional field

Question 45

What are meteorites?

Answer 45

meteorids that make it to the earths surface

Question 46

What is the kuiper belt?

Answer 46

a much larger collection of asteroids and other objects leftr over qthe formation of the solar system.