Terrific Tides
What tide is it- Tides tend to have the LEAST tidal range. (Moon is at 1st and 3rd quarter).
Neap Tide
As you descend (go down) through the atmosphere, this happens to air pressure.
Increases
The layer of earth's atmosphere where weather occurs
Troposhere
The process that occurs when your perspiration disappears.
Evaporation
A total solar eclipse is visible from where?
Only within the moon's umbra
Tides tend to have the GREATEST tidal range (difference between high and low) when the moon is in these phases...2 answers!
New and Full Moon
What is the tilt of Earth's axis as it orbits the sun?
23.5 degrees
The darkest part of a shadow...
umbra
People who wear glasses may notice that their glasses fog up when they come indoors on a cold day. What process caused all those tiny droplets on the lenses to form?
Condensation
What an observer on earth would see during a total lunar eclipse?
The moon turning a red color
A tide just after a new or full moon, when there is the greatest difference between high and low water, is called...
Spring Tide
The effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents.
Coriolis effect
Potential energy that depends on the height of an object
gravitational potential energy
The atmosphere transfers heat by this process and circulates energy around the planet.
Convection
The moon's orbit is tilted _ degrees from the orbit of the Earth around the sun
5 degrees
A warm ocean current of the northern Atlantic Ocean off eastern North America.
Gulf Stream
A narrow band of fast-moving air about 6 miles above North America
jet stream
What is a partial shadow called?
Penumbra
Which Newton's law?
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
Newton's 3rd Law
Energy stored by something that can stretch or compress?
elastic potential energy
The percent of our atmosphere that is made up of gases other than oxygen and nitrogen.
1 %
The ability to do work or cause change
Energy
The process by which gases hold heat in the atmosphere is called....
Greenhouse Effect
What is an example of a conductor of electrical charges?
Copper
What is it called when a new moon phase blocks our view of the sun?
Solar Eclipse