Weather & Climate
Long-term atmospheric conditions in an area.
Answer: What is climate?
The formula used to calculate force.
Answer: What is Force = Mass × Acceleration?
A ramp is this type of simple machine.
Answer: What is an inclined plane?
The Moon takes about this long to complete one orbit around Earth.
Answer: What is about 1 month (29.5 days)?
Photosynthesis occurs mainly in this part of the plant cell.
Answer: What is chlorophyll (or chloroplasts)?
As altitude increases, temperature generally does this.
Answer: What is decrease?
The unit used to measure force.
Answer: What is a Newton?
A wheelbarrow contains these two simple machines.
Answer: What are a lever and wheel-and-axle?
When the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun, it experiences this season.
Answer: What is winter?
A fish in a pond is an example of this type of organism.
Answer: What is a consumer?
The curving of global winds caused by Earth's rotation.
Answer: What is the Coriolis Effect?
A 3 kg object accelerates at 5 m/s². Calculate the force.
Answer: What is 15 N?
An ax is an example of this simple machine.
Answer: What is a wedge?
The Moon phase located between New Moon and Full Moon.
Answer: What is First Quarter?
The state of matter with definite volume but no definite shape.
Answer: What is a liquid?
A continental polar air mass is generally this.
Answer: What is cold and dry?
Work = Force × Distance. A force of 5 N moves an object 10 m.
Answer: What is 50 J?
The purpose of a simple machine.
Answer: What is making work easier?
The reason different Moon phases occur.
Answer: What is the Moon's changing position in its orbit?
The density of air generally does this as air warms.
Answer: What is decrease?
Closely spaced isobars indicate this weather condition.
Answer: What are strong winds?
This law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Answer: What is Newton's Third Law?
This simple machine changes the direction of a force using a rope and wheel.
Answer: What is a pulley?
During summer in the Northern Hemisphere, this hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun.
Answer: What is the Northern Hemisphere?
Name all three states of matter.
Answer: What are solid, liquid, and gas?