Astronomy
Insolation and Seasons
Weather
Climate
Pot Luck
100

This takes 24 hours or 15 degrees per hour

What is Earth's Rotation

100

Gasses like carbon dioxide and methane that absorb heat (infrared) energy in the atmosphere

What are greehouse gasses

100
Continental Polar airmass
What is an airmass with dry cool air
100
Temperature and moisture
What are the two things that determine climate
100
The ratio of mass to volume for all matter
What is density
200

One year or 365.25 days

What is the length or time for Earth's revolution around the sun

200

The tilt of Earth's rotational axis, or Earth's axial tilt, creates the ...

What is the main reason we have seasons

200
The amount of moisture in the air
What is humidity
200
The feature that has the biggest control on temperature
What is Latitude
200

A seismic wave that travels slowly and cannot pass through Earth's liquid outer core

What is an S-Wave

300

It takes 29.5 days

What is the length of time for all moon phases

300
Belt of the planet recieving the most insolation on any given day of the year
What is the equatorial zone or tropical zone
300
Temperature that water begins to condense and form clouds at
What is the dewpoint
300

Air drops moisture on the windward side of mountains as it is forced to rise and cool by the mountains leaving the drier air to descend on the leeward side

What is the orographic effect or the cause of most desert climates

300

The idea that relative dates can be determined by using known fossils and depth below the surface

What is the law of superposition

400

Ptolemy's model of the solar system with the Earth in the middle

What is the geocentric model

400
Currents created by uneven heating of Earth's surface
What are global wind belts or convection zones
400
Differences in air pressure caused by uneven heating
What is the cause of wind
400

The feature that causes temperature to become lower as it increases through the troposphere

What is altitude

400

The thing that give all minerals their basic properties of luster, hardness, cleavage, fracture, color and streak

What is mineral composition

500

The day sunlight hits the tropic of cancer (23.5 degrees North) directly (at a 90 degree angle)

What is Summer Solstice or Longest day of the year, June 21.

500
The type of electromagnetic radiation primarily responsible for energy on Earth
What is visible light
500

The proof for an expanding universe

What is redshift and background microwave radiation

500
The idea that distance from an ocean or large body of water can alter temperature when compared across latitudes
What is continentality
500

The change in wavelength from long to short as an object is moving towards the viewer

What is blue shift

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