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Equal amounts of light and darkness. Occurs in the spring and fall.
What is equinox?
One orbit around the sun or other celestial body. (one year).
The measure of an earthquake's strength. Each level increase by 10.
What is the Richter Scale?
One turn on an axis or a day.
What is a rotation?
The max or min amount of light. Occurs in summer and winter.
What is solstice?
Examples of these include amount of light, temperature, density, productivity, salinity, and organisms living there.
What are characteristics that define the layers of the ocean?
Cloud type associated with thunderstorms.
What are Cumulonimbus?
Also known as the twilight zone.
What is Mesopelagic?
Thin wispy clouds associated with fair weather.
What are Cirrus?
Small puffy clouds associated with fair weather or light rain.
What are Cumulus?
Thin clouds in lines associated with fair weather or light rain.
What are Stratus?
When the water recedes from the shore due to the gravitational pull of the moon.
What is low tide?
Thicker clouds associated with gentle rain and flooding.
What are Nimbostratus?
When the Earth blocks the sun from reaching the moon during a full moon.
What is a Lunar Eclipse?
Bigger type of tide when the Earth, moon and sun are in alignment.
What is Spring Tide?
The phase of the moon following a full moon.
What is a Waning Gibbous?
The climate/biome type that is continental, hot, and wet.
What is the Rain Forrest?
The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is Troposphere?
The climate type that is continental, moderate temperature, and wet.
What is Fresh Water?
The layer of the atmosphere where the northern lights occur.
What is the Thermosphere?
Fo/Fe
What is magnification?
weight/gravity
What is mass?
The number located to the top right of the circle on a weather map when it is 200+ in in Hg.
What is high pressure?
What is weight?
Pressure, temperature, cloud cover, wind speed and direction, fronts.
What is the information that can be found on a weather map?