The Planets
The planet closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
These two gasses make up 99% of our air.
What are nitrogen and oxygen
It's the phase of the moon when the entire lit side of the moon is visible from Earth.
What is a full moon?
This is a tool used by meteorologists (and everyone else) to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
This is the lowest layer of the atmosphere. It is where all the weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
This is what we call the moon when it is growing.
What is waxing?
the Earth does this in a 24 hour period.
What is rotate on it's axis?
What is the difference between a weather forecast, and a weather report?
A forecast is a prediction, a report is just reporting measurements.
This rocky belt is found between mars and Jupiter
What is the asteroid belt?
This is the second layer of the atmosphere. It is where we find the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
This is the defining feature of a moon. If it doesn't do this, then it's not a moon.
What is revolve around a planet?
Earth does this every 365 days.
What is revolve around the Sun?
This weather variable tells us how much water vapor is in the air.
What is humidity?
As you go up through our atmosphere, these two things happen to the air.
What is air gets thinner (less dense) and colder.
It's the rising and falling of ocean water due to the gravity of the moon.
What is tide?
This takes about 28 days.
What is the moon's revolution around the Earth?
When meteorologists report/predict wind, they talk about these two aspects of it.
What is speed and direction?
This is the region beyond Neptune. It contains dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
This is the outer layer of our atmosphere. It slowly fades away into empty space.
What is the exosphere?
This is what we call a moon that is shrinking.
What is waning?
The path one object takes around another object in space.
What is an orbit?
This measuring tool measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?