Astronomy
The approximate age of the universe
What is 13.8 Billion Years?
These are the 3 main layers of the Earth.
What are the crust, mantle, and core?
The name of the phase change from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaopration?
This is the boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
This term is used for mass removal of trees.
What is deforestation?
This is the term used for the shape of the planetary orbits in our solar system
What is elliptical?
This is the approximate tilt of Earth on its axis.
What is 23.5o?
The term used for water that does not soak into the ground as a result of a rain event.
What is run off?
These two gases contribute the most to the greenhouse effect on Earth.
What are CO2 and methane?
The burning of these fossil fuels contributes the most to global warming.
What are coal and oil?
This determines the life cycle path that every star will follow.
What is mass?
This is the most dense layer of Earth.
What is the inner core?
This is the underground boundary that separates the unsaturated zone from the saturated zone.
What is the water table?
High pressure systems will bring ________ weather.
What is good/fair?
Give one example of a feedback loop that impacts the climate
What is warming oceans and melting sea ice?
This is a measure of the distance between focal points divided by the major axis.
What is eccentricity?
This term describes all of the frozen parts of our planet.
What is the cryosphere?
The measure of how easily a fluid can flow through a material like soil, sand, rocks.
This material has a higher albedo:
a) Light colored soil
b) Dark colored soil
What is light colored soil?
Two ways that carbon is released into our atmosphere
What is burning wood, fossil fuels, cellular respiration, decaying organisms?
This is the term used for a system that is sun-centered.
What is heliocentric?
This is the term used for when the moon blocks the Sun from hitting Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
Caves in NY state are most commonly formed from which rock type?
a) Sandstone b) Limestone
c) Shale d) Conglomerate
What is limestone?
This region of Earth is experiencing the most dramatic changes due to climate shifts.
What is the polar regions (artcic/antarctic)?
The thawing of this permanently frozen arctic ground releases massive amounts of trapped methane, creating a dangerous feedback loop.
What is permafrost?