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L to J Vocabulary
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock | fossil |
| The name givent to the four outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune | gas giants |
| A type of rock that forms from the cooling or molten rock at or below the surface | igneous rock |
| Not formed from living things or the remains of living things | inorganic |
| The blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when EArth is directly between the sun and moon | Lunar Eclipse |
| A type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by hear, pressure or chemical reactions | metamorphic rock |
| The gas that gives Uranus and Neptune their blue green color | methane |
| The undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary | mid-ocean ridge |
| A naturally occuring, inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and a definite chemical compostion | mineral |
| The name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents | Pangaea |
| One of the different shapes of the moon as seen from earth | Phase |
| A section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carriying pieces of continental and oceanic crust | plate |
| The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle | plate tectonics |
| The spining motions of a planet from east to west, opposite to the direction of rotation of most planets and moons | retrograde rotation |
| A series of processes on the surface and inside EArth that slowly change rocks from one kind to another | rock cycle |
| A well-tested concept that explains a wide range of observations | scientific theory |
| The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor | sea-floor spreading |
| Small, solid pieces of material that comes from rocks or organisms | sediment |
| A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together | sedimentary rock |
| Mixture of tiny rock pieces, decaying plants and animals, mineral, water and air | Soil |
| The blocking of sunlight to EArth that occurs when the moos is between the sun and Earth | Solar Eclipse |
| Something with a definite volume and shape | Solid |
| A mixture in which one substance is dissolved in another | solution |
| The process by wich oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary | subduction |
| The name given to the four inner planets: Mercury, VEnus, Earth and Mars. | terrestrial planets |
| Increase in soil nutrients, formation of new landforms, and hot springs are benefits of what natural force | Volcanic eruptions |
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