Seasons
Gravity
Moon
Atmosphere
Potpourri
100

The reason for the seasons.

 

What is the earth's tilt?

100
This force exists everywhere.
What is gravity?
100

This phenomenon occurs when the Moon passes directly behind Earth and into its shadow. 

What is a lunar eclipse?

100

This happen to air pressure and air density as altitude increases.

What is decrease in air pressure and air density?
100
What is the reason for the low temperature in Branchburg in December?
What is a low sunlight angle caused by Earth's axis being tilted away from the sun?
200

Two places that  have very severe winters.

What are the North Pole and the South Pole?

200

 The __________________ of two objects and their distance from each other determine the strength of the gravitational force between them.

What is mass?
200

How many days it takes approximately for the moon to go from a full moon phase a new moon phase?

What is about 14-15 days?
200

This phenomenon moves from high pressure to low pressure.

What is wind?
200

This factor increases with increase of mass.

What is inertia?

300

It takes one year or 365 and 1/4 days.

What is one revolution of the Earth around the Sun?

300

This factor is an object's tendency to resist a change in motion.

What is inertia?
300

This phenomenon occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and when the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun.

What is a solar eclipse?
300

This type of heat transfer makes most of the troposphere heated.

What is convection?
300

This law states that every object in the Universe attracts another object with gravity.

What is the Law of Universal Gravitation?

400

4. The autumnal equinox occurs around ____________ in the Northern Hemisphere.

What is September 21st?
400

These two factors keep the moon in orbit around the Earth and the planets in orbit around the Sun.

What are inertia and gravity?
400

Why do have the moon phases?

What is the orbiting the Earth by the moon, which causes the illuminated  portion of the moon we see from Earth to change?

400
This factor gets lower and higher as altitude increases.
What is temperature?
400

You feel this wind on the beach during day time.

What is a sea breeze?

500
This factor has nothing to do with the reasons for the seasons.

What is the distance between the Earth’s and the Sun?

500

 This factor measures the strength of gravitational pull.

What is weight?
500

How many days it takes between the new moon and the last quarter?

What is 20-21 days?

500

What is the way heat is transferred in space?

What is radiation?

500

When there is no shadow at noon on the Equator? 

What is March 21st or Spring equinox?

What is September 21st or Fall equinox?

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