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Saturn's rings are made up mostly of?
What is chunks of ice and rock.
100
A low level, billowy cloud that commonly has a top that resembles cotton balls and a dark bottom.
What is cumulus clouds
100
Condensation nuclei are
What is ice and dust particles
100
A feathery cloud that is composed of ice crystals and that has the highest altitude of any cloud
What is cirrus clouds
100
A large bright star whose hot core has used most of its hydrogen is a
What is giant
200
Occluded Front
What is A front that forms when a cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass and lifts the warm air mass off the ground and over another air mass.
200
A small, hot, extremely dense core left after a star collapses
What is white dwarf
200
A large body of air throughout which temperature and moisture content are similar
What is an air mass
200
Blue represents what temperature for stars
What is the hottest stars
200
At 10 million degrees Celsius this begins to happen in a star
What is nuclear fusion begins
300
An area where no direct seismic waves from a particular earthquake can be detected is called
What is a shadow zone
300
Latent Heat
What is the heat energy that is absorbed or released by a substance during a phase change
300
A spherical region that surrounds the solar system and that contain billions of comets is the
What is Oort Cloud
300
_____________ the process by which the temperature of an air mass decreases as the air rises and expands.
What is adiabatic cooling
300
the formation of a large droplet by the combination of smaller droplets
What is coalescence
400
An explosive release of energy that comes from the sun and that is associated with magnetic disturbances on the sun's surface
What is solar flare
400
This event occurred about 14 billion years ago
What is the Big Bang
400
The speed and direction of seismic waves is affected by
What is the composition of Earth's interior
400
When hydrogen nuclei fuse into helium nuclei
energy is released
400
These are when the magnetic poles switch
What is magnetic reversals
500
Convection, ridge push, and slab pull work together to produce
What is constant tectonic plate motion
500
About 90% of all stars, including the Sun, are classified as
What is a main sequence star
500
The process by which the temperature of an air mass decreases as the air mass moves over a cold surface.
What is advective cooling
500
Two major factors used to describe climate are
What is temperature and precipitation
500
During the main sequence stage, how is energy generated in a star's core
What is hydrogen fuses into helium
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