What Caused the United States to Initiate a Program to Land

question 111

Multiple Choice

What caused the United States to initiate a program to land someone on the moon within ten years?

• A) the Korean War
• B) the search for new energy sources
• C) a national contest sponsored by IBM
• D) the Soviet launch of Sputnik
• E) hubris

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Definitions:

Basalt

A dark, fine-grained volcanic rock that is formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava at the Earth's surface.

Clasts

Fragments of geological detritus, such as minerals and rocks, formed by weathering and erosion.

Unconformity

A geological surface that represents a gap in the geological record, often due to erosion or lack of deposition over a period of time.

Cleavage

In geology, the tendency of minerals to break along flat, parallel surfaces related to the arrangement of atoms within the mineral.