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Doing the Wave
As the World Turns
Over the Moon
Space Cadet
Grab Bag
100
Causes deep ocean currents
What are density differences?
100
Periodic up and down movement of water
What is a wave?
100
Approximate time for rotation of Earth
What is one day or 24 hours?
100
A layer of crushed rock and dust on the lunar surface
What is regolith?
100
Shooting star
What is a meteor?
100
What is a spring tide?
200
Water in the ocean moving in giant streams
What is a current?
200
Forms when waves topple over
What is a breaker?
200
Approximate time for one revolution of the Earth around the sun
What is one year or 365 1/4 days?
200
A moon phase that is decreasing in the lit portion
What is waning?
200
The least dense planet in our solar system
What is Saturn?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!
The measure of dissolved solids in a liquid
What is salinity?
300
Causes curved paths of ocean currents
What is the Coriolis Effect?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!
Distance wind blows across an area of the sea to generate waves
What is fetch?
300
System for measuring time by dividing it into days, weeks, months, and years
What is a calendar?
300
A large, dark area of lunar basalt
What is mare?
300
Has volcanoes, canyons, polar ice caps, and seasons like Earth
What is Mars?
300
Irregular current caused by breakers pulling water back into deeper water
What is an undertow?
400
Major factor influencing surface currents
What is wind?
400
Forms when the wind blows the crest off of waves
What are whitecaps?
400
Place in a planet’s orbit when it is closest to the sun
What is perihelion?
400
A moon phase in which less than half of the moon’s face is illuminated
What is crescent?
400
Its blue-green color indicates an atmosphere containing a large amount of methane.
What is Uranus?
400
Movement of water away from the coast
What is ebb tide?
500
Causes density differences in ocean water
What are salinity and temperature?
500
The distance from one crest or trough to the next successive crest or trough
What is wavelength?
500
Aristotle developed this model of the solar system with the Earth at its center
What is geocentric?
500
Moon phase where the lit portion is more than half of the moon’s face
What is gibbous?
500
Has a giant storm on its surface called the Great Dark Spot
What is Neptune?
500
Forms sandbars
What are longshore currents?
600
Area where a huge circle of ocean water would be moving in a counter-clockwise direction
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
600
Caused by underwater landslides, volcanic eruptions, or earthquakes
What is a tsunami?
600
The developer of the heliocentric model of the solar system
Who was Copernicus?
600
The point in the lunar orbit that is farthest from Earth
What is apogee?
600
Hottest surface temperatures due to runaway greenhouse effect
What is Venus?
600
Areas in solar system that are home to comets
What are Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud?