Earth and Space Meaning Example

1. Asteroid 1. Rocks floating around in space. Some 1. Ceres (dwarf planet;

2. Black hole are the size of a pick-up truck. Others largest asteroid)
3. crust are hundreds of miles across. 2. A stellar-mass black
4. Equator 2. A place in space where matter and hole forms when a
5. Galaxy light cannot escape if they fall in. star with more than
6. Nebula 3. A thin outer layer of rock above a 20 solar masses
7. Ozone layer planet’s mantle, exhausts the nuclear
8. Pangaea including all dry land and ocean fuel in its core and
9. Tectonics basins. Earth’s continental crust is 40 collapses under its
10. Volcano kilometers thick on average and own weight
11. Weather oceanic crust is 7 kilometers thick on 3. continental crust of
12. Meteorite average. the Earth
13. Mantle 4. The circle around a planet or moon 4. latitude of 0°
14. Topography that is the same distance from its 5. Andromeda Galaxy
15. telescope north pole and its south pole. (M31, NGC 224)
5. A collection of thousands to billions Apparent Magnitude
of stars held together by gravity. The 3.4. Distance 2.5 Mly
galaxy we live in is called the Milky (780 kpc)
Way. 6. Ring Nebula, the
6. A cloud of dust or gas found between Dumbbell Nebula,
stars. and the Helix Nebula.
7. A part of Earth’s atmosphere that 7. Ozone depletion
absorbs lots of the sun’s ultraviolet 8. massive continent
radiation. It is made of a gas called that contained
ozone, which is a molecule of three Eurasia, North
oxygen atoms America, India,
8. A hypothetical supercontinent that Australia, Antarctica,
included all of the landmasses on Africa and South
Earth. It began breaking apart about America.
200 million years ago. ( 9. the Mid-Atlantic
9. Big movements of Earth’s crust. Ridge and East Pacific
Tectonics creates mountain ranges, Rise
deep sea trenches, volcanoes, and 10. Mayon Volcano in
earthquakes that can cause the Philippines
destructive tsunami waves that can 11. degree to which it is
cross oceans. hot or cold, wet or
10. A mountain or hill that has an dry, calm or stormy,
opening where lava, rock fragments, clear or cloudy
or gas erupt from deep inside a 12. Achondrites include
planet or moon meteorites from
11. The condition of Earth’s atmosphere asteroids, Mars and
at a particular time and place. the Moon
12. A small object from outer space that 13. the rigid lithosphere
passes through Earth’s atmosphere comprising the
and reaches the surface uppermost mantle
13. The layer of rock between Earth’s 14. include mountains,
outer core and crust, in which most hills, valleys, lakes,
 rock is hot enough to flow in oceans, rivers, cities,
convection currents; Earth’s thickest dams, and roads
layer 15. Hubble Space
14. All natural and human-made surface Telescope
features of a particular area.
15. A device that gather visible light or
another form of electromagnetic
radiation.