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Solar System
The Sun
Stars
Tectonics
Misc.
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4. The age of the solar system
What is about 4.6 billion years?

5. The solar system formed from a cloud of gas and dust called this.
What is a nebula?

6. Compared to Earth today, early Earth’s temperature was this.
What is much hotter?

7. What is the lack of weathering or erosion?
The reason the moon has more craters than the Earth even though the moon is much smaller.
What is the lack of weathering or erosion?

8. Heavier elements are found in these kinds of planets.
What are terrestrial or inner planets?

9. This process powers the Sun.
What is nuclear fusion?

10. The main element produced by reactions within the Sun is this.
What is helium?

11. The Sun is this kind of star.
What is main sequence?

12. The Sun is located in the outer edge of this galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?

13. What is that lighter gasses could only condense far from the Sun?
When the solar system formed, the outer planets formed mainly of lighter gasses because of this.
What is that lighter gasses could only condense far from the Sun?

14. Billions of stars, gas, and dust make up one of these.
What is a galaxy?

15. Most of the mass of the universe that we can directly detect is located within these.
What are stars?

16. Blue and white giant stars have lives that are this compared to average main sequence stars.
What is shorter?

17. Scientists study spectral lines of a star to determine this.
What are the elements the star is made of?

18. Most scientists think this is how carbon atoms are formed.
What is by nuclear fusion within large stars?

19. This is where the youngest rocks on the ocean floor are found.
What is at mid-ocean ridges?

20. What is the theory of plate tectonics?
Studying the magnetic patterns of the rocks in the ocean floor helps scientists prove this theory.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?

21. These form at a continental to continental convergent boundary?
What are folded mountains?

22. This forms at a convergent boundary between two oceanic plates.
What is an arc chain of volcanic islands?

23. This is where deep oceanic trenches form.
What is at subduction zones?

24. This kind of rock forms when melted rock cools and solidifies.
What is igneous?

25. What are metamorphic rocks?
This kind of rock is formed from other kinds of rocks under intense heat and pressure within the Earth’s crust.
What are metamorphic rocks?

26. The Richter scale is used to measure this.
What is an earthquake’s intensity or magnitude?

27. The deepest earthquakes are found in these locations.
What are subduction zones?

28. This natural phenomena helped create California’s large deposits of gold.
What are volcanoes?

29. Final Jeopardy What is underground aquifers? ?
Topic: California Natural Resources
This is where central California gets most of its water from. ?
What is underground aquifers?

30. Thank you for playing