Long & Lat
The reason there are 24 of these.
What are time zones, and because of Earth's rotation having 24 hours in a cycle.
Another name for the Northern Lights.
What is Aurora Borealis?
The reason we have an atmosphere.
What is gravity?
The earth has _____ main layers.
What is four?
The phenomena evidenced by dust clouds, tons of stars, and bright colors.
What is a nebula?
The imaginary horizontal lines projected on our globe.
What is Latitude?
The reason auroras occur towards the poles.
What is the magnetosphere?
An atmosphere is made up of _____________.
What are molecules?
The phenomena ordering the 4 layers of the earth
What is density?
The true reasons for the seasons.
What is Earth's tilt creating variance in day length and difference in light angle/concentration?
The name given to 0 degrees N aka 0 degrees S.
What is the equator?
The two main elements producing auroras.
What are oxygen and nitrogen?
Name the 4 main layers of the atmosphere starting closest to Earth.
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere?
The cause of Earth's magnetosphere.
What is Earth's liquid iron core?
Name two of the 7 characteristics classifying living.
What is movement, reproduction, sensing, nutrition, excretion, respiration, growth.
The imaginary sphere we project onto the stars
A non-Earth planet that also has auroras.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune
The layer within which the ISS orbits.
What is the thermosphere?
The 4 layers studied starting inside out.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle, crust?
The ultimate source of energy for life as we know it
What is the sun.
The International Date Line's location and purpose.
What is 180 degrees W or E, and the time zone where the calendar date changes.
The element producing pink auroras.
What is Nitrogen?
Name the layer that protects us from asteroids.
What is the mesosphere?
The reason there is movement within Earth's layers
What is convection?
The wobble of Earth.
What is precession?