Atmosphere
What is the lowest layer of the atmosphere, immediately surrounding the planet, in which constant pressure activity causes turbulence and severe weather conditions?
What type of cloud is tall, billowy, and known for producing thunder showers?
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
What is the name of the constellation that looks like a goat?
What is Ares?
In what galaxy does our solar system reside?
What is the Milky Way?
The movement of air from water ares to land areas (due to unequal heating of air) during daylight hours is called what?
What is a water breeze?
Falling moisture in any form is called what?
What is precipitation?
What outer layer of the sun is so faint that you can only see it during a total solar eclipse?
Which planet could be considered the "king" of the planets?
What is Jupiter?
What causes convection currents (and, in conjunction with the Coriolis effect, wind belts)?
What is uneven heating of air?
What kind of clouds are found at very high altitudes and are formed of wispy, feathery streaks of ice crystals?
When a red giant star collapses due to unstable forces, it turns into a small, dense star called a ___?
What is a white dwarf (or black dwarf if explanation is furnished).
What two planets are closer to the Sun than Earth?
What are Mercury and Venus?
What are warm fronts?
Most stars are composed primarily of what two elements?
What are hydrogen and helium?
What force holds galaxies together?
What is the gravitational pull of a supermassive black hole?
Sailors aboard early sailing ships were the first to use what word to refer to the region near the equator where their ships were often becalmed?
What are the doldrums?
Last spring's rain, this winter's _____.
What is snow?
What stage of life is our Sun in?
What is "main sequence" stage or "young star"?
What are clouds of cosmic dust and gases called?
What are nebulae? (i.e. What is a nebula?)