Weather
Solar System
The Ocean
Gas/Space
Instruments
100
Layer of the atmosphere closest to the earth...
What is troposphere?
100
This causes change from Spring to Summer...
What is the tilt of the Earth on its axis?
100
Runoff water breaks down rocks and soil on its trip to the ocean. This causes the ocean to be
What is salty?
100
A property of the air we breathe...
What is it takes up space?
100
An instrument used to measure humidity is called a
What is a hygrometer?
200
The sun warms the ____________more than the poles....
What is equator?
200
All of the objects in our Solar System revolve around...
What is a star(the sun)?
200
This is NOT a feature of the ocean floor.... *abyssal plain *mid-ocean ridge *trench *continental shelf
What is continental shelf
200
As you go higher in the atmosphere, the air pressure...
What is decreases?
200
An instrument that you use to study far off planets...
What is a reflecting telescope?
300
A dry, cold air mass is more likely to form over the ....
What is the land near the poles? **DAILY DOUBLE**
300
The sun supplies the earth with...
What is energy?
300
Tides are caused by...
What is the moon's gravity?
300
Of the phrases listed, this is NOT part of the water cycle... *evaportation *condensation *reflection *precipitation
What is reflection?
300
An instrument used to measure how hot or cold it is outside...
What is a thermometer?
400
The place where two air masses meet...
What is a front?
400
Name the inner planets in our Solar System in order...
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars?
400
This helps to form the ocean floor...
What is plate movement?
400
This is used to explore space without the use of people...
What is a space probe?
400
An instrument used to measure the barometric pressure?
What is a barometer? **Daily Double**
500
A weather map with a long line of blue triangles on the map approaching your area means...
What is a cold front is approaching.
500
The earth would have a __________if the moon was ever pulled apart by Earth's gravity....
What is a ring?
500
Name two oceans that border our east and west coast...
What are the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans?
500
Name all planets in our Solar System in order from the sun...
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, (Pluto-dwarf planet) **Daily Double**
500
An instrument used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
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