Geoscience

2. a soft, crystalline form of carbon
5. force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center
6. a stress which stretches rocks in two opposite directions
9. a giant cloud of dust and gas in space
10. third planet from the Sun and the only place known in the universe where life has originated and found habitability
11. the force applied to an object
12. forms a dramatic backdrop to the Bay of Naples
15. openings, or vents where lava, tephra (small rocks), and steam erupt onto the Earth's surface
18. the movement of particles through a substance, transporting their heat energy from hotter areas to cooler areas
19. consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity
20. compressive stress and forms particular textures

1. a regular, repeating path that one object takes around another object or center of gravity
3. a web of processes that outlines how each of the three major rock types—igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary
4. an idea or proposition that can be tested by observations or experiments, about the natural world
7. when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another
8. a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out
13. ____, paper, scissors shoot!
14. the movement of air, caused by the uneven heating
16. the angle between the axis of the feature and the strike of the plane containing the axis
17. a push or pull upon an object resulting from the object's interaction with another object