Astronomy
The scientific study focuses on celestial objects, space, and the physical universe beyond Earth.
What is Astronomy?
The term refers to the amount of water vapor present in the air
What is moisture?
The term refers to the long-term average of weather conditions in a particular region.
What is climate?
The process by which rocks and minerals are broken down into smaller particles by physical or chemical means.
What is weathering?
The two primary geographical coordinates used to specify a location on Earth's surface.
What are Latitude and Longitude?
The most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere, making up about 78% of it.
What is Nitrogen?
What "insolation" stands for, which represents the amount of solar radiation received on Earth's surface.
What is incoming solar radiation?
The type of map displays the elevation and relief of the Earth's surface, often used to study landforms and navigate through terrains.
What is a Topographic map?
The term for the Earth's spinning on its axis, which causes day and night.
What is Rotation?
The boundary between two air masses with different temperatures and densities.
What is a Front?
The three main geographic factors that influence climate.
What is Latitude, Altitude, and Proximity to Large Bodies of Water.
The hardest known mineral on the Mohs scale, with a rating of 10.
What is a diamond?
The name of the galaxy that contains our solar system.
What is The Milky Way?
This weather phenomenon is a rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground.
What is a tornado?
The process called by which water vapor in the atmosphere cools and condenses to form clouds and eventually falls back to the Earth's surface as precipitation?
What is The Water Cycle?
The name of the theory that explains the movement of Earth's lithospheric plates and their interactions at plate boundaries.
What are Plate Tectonics?
The term for the variation in the amount of sunlight received on Earth's surface, leading to changes in seasons.
What is Insolation?
The term used to describe a severe tropical cyclone with sustained winds of at least 74 miles per hour, typically forming over warm water.
What is a Hurricane?
The term describes the gradual increase in the Earth's average surface temperature due to human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation?
What is Global Warming?
The era of geologic time is known as the "Age of Dinosaurs," characterized by the dominance of dinosaurs and the first appearance of birds and flowering plants.
What is the Mesozoic Era?