Space Systems
The "gas giant" planets are sometimes referred to as these planets.
What are Jovian planets?
This is how long ago the dinosaurs went extinct.
What is 66 mya?
The cryosphere refers to all of this on Earth's surface.
What is ice?
The number in the top right corner of a weather station model represents this.
What is atmospheric pressure?
France limits its air pollution by utilizing this energy source.
What is nuclear?
As an orbiting body gets further from the star it orbits, this happens to the period of revolution.
What is it increases?
We know that rocks buried deeper in the Earth are older due to this law.
What is the law of superposition?
This is a major force changing the Earth's geosphere.
What are tectonic forces (tectonic plates)?
This is the primary cause of surface ocean currents.
What are global wind patterns?
The addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere has this effect on the hydrosphere.
What is sea level rise or acidic water?
This event occurs when the outward force of nuclear fusion in a star no longer neutralizes the inward force of gravity.
What is a supernova?
This is where the youngest rocks in the ocean can be found.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
This is an effect in the atmosphere that may result from warming in the hydrosphere.
What is warmer air or more water vapor/humidity in the air?
The characteristic of ice keeps Earth cool by reflecting sunlight back into space.
What is high albedo?
This is the process of returning land to its prior state once mining is complete.
What is land reclamation?
This is a piece of evidence for the Big Bang.
What is redshifted galaxies, background microwave radiation, or the composition of elements in the universe?
This is the process that causes the movement of tectonic plates.
What is convection currents in the mantle?
This is the agent of deposition responsible for giant "erratics" in Central Park.
What are glaciers?
The AMOC, which regulates global climate, is currently being disrupted by this.
What is melting ice/the addition of freshwater to the ocean?
What two mineral resources can be found in Binghamton, NY?
What are peat and clay?
This is the name given to the aligning of the Sun, Earth, and Moon, such that the Sun and Moon's gravity are pulling Earth along the same axis.
What is a spring tide?
This is a constructive force changing the surface of White Sands National Park.
What is gypsum (mineral) precipitates out of solution when water evaporates?
These are the TWO primary features at a convergent plate boundary between two continental plates.
What are mountains and earthquakes?
This is the name given to an atmospheric convection current between 30o and 60o N latitude.
What is a ferrel cell?
Final Jeopardy: This is the name of the weather tool Mr. Wildeman is holding.
What is a sling psychrometer?