Moon Phases
Seasons
Water Cycle
Weather vs Climate
Planets
100
The reason we see the Moon from the Earth
What is the Sun
100
What is the reason we have seasons?
What is the Earth's axis is tilted
100
What explains how water undergoes a change of state in one stage of the water cycle in order to move from the ocean's surface into the air?
What is evaporation
100
When looking at climate, what is a key word that tells you it is describing climate?
What is:
Usually, always, average, region, season, long term, decade...
100
The 4 inner planets are classified as this.
What is rocky
200
How many phases of moon are there?
What is 8
200
The direction the axis pointed in winter
What is away from the sun
200
A diagram of the stages in the water cycle is shown below.
Which of these observations would most likely be seen at Stage N?
What is runoff or the water flowing downhill?
200
A study of climate includes the use of maps that are different from simple weather maps. A map of which of the following is one that would be used in the study of climate?
A. Number of sunny days per year in Northern Africa.
B. Position of a cold front yesterday outside Detroit, Michigan.
What is A?
Number of sunny days per year in Northern Africa.
200
The 4 outer planets are classified as this.
What is gas?
300
How much of the sun shines on the moon at any given time?
What is 50%
300
How long a season lasts
What is 3 months
300
The diagram above shows the process of evaporation over the ocean. What is the most likely effect of this process on the land areas nearby?
What is increased precipitation?
300
Weather data is different than climate data. Which of the following is an example of weather data?
A. The average high temperature in May is 21°C in the Midwest of the United States.
B. The relative humidity was 24% at noon on July 23 in Tempe, Arizona.
What is B.
The relative humidity was 24% at noon on July 23 in Tempe, Arizona.
300
What is the order of the 8 planets?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
400
What are the 4 most important phases to know for a test?
What are full moon, new moon, first quarter, and last quarter
400
What makes spring and fall different from summer and winter?
What is the axis is parallel to the sun causing equal days and equal nights.
400
What is the process by which plants give off water vapor through stomata?
What is transpiration.
400
Which of these best describes climate rather than weather?
A. The rainfall during one year was greater than the rainfall during the following year.
B. Annual high temperatures in the summer have increased over many decades
What is B?
Annual high temperatures in the summer have increased over many decades
400
The diagram shows the orbits of the first five planets in the solar system. In the diagram, the arrow is pointing to which planet?
What is Mars?
500
What is the difference between waxing and waning
What is waxing gives more light heading to full moon and waning takes away light heading to new moon
500
Name 1 result of the axis pointing toward the sun
Possible correct answers:
What are longer days/Shorter nights
What are warmer days
What is direct sunlight
500
What part of the water cycle is this?
What is runoff
500
Climate and weather are different concepts, though they are related. How are the concepts of weather and climate different?
A. Weather conditions include precipitation, but climate does not
B. Climate covers larger areas and longer times than weather.
What is B?
Climate covers larger areas and longer times than weather.
500
The table describes the objects used by students to make a model of the solar system. Which object is being used to model the planet with the orbit that is fourth in order from the Sun? 
What is a marble?