Climate
Paleoclimatology and Climate Change
Astronomy
Newton and Physics
Miscellaneous
100
Long term weather.
What is climate?
100
The study of past climate.
What is paleoclimatology?
100
The order of the electromagnetic spectrum from lowest frequency to highest frequency.
What is radio, micro, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma?
100
It is a push or pull on an object.
What is force?
100
Carries warm air north and cool air south, the air masses makes waves as it travels.
What is the jet stream?
200
Air pressure is measured by this instrument.
What is a barometer?
200
When this happens there is a high pressure in Australia and a low pressure in South America.
What is El Niño?
200
Frequency is measured using this unit.
What is hertz?
200
The six types of contact forces.
What is friction, air resistance, spring, tension, applied, and normal force?
200
The type of breeze that occurs during the night.
What is a land breeze?
300
Differences in air pressure cause this.
What is wind?
300
This is what ENSO stand for.
What is El Niño Southern Oscillation?
300
This kind of shift occurs when a celestial body is moving toward the observer.
What is blue shift?
300
This law states that object's acceleration will be in the direction of the net force.
What is Newton's Second Law of Motion?
300
Another name for the equator.
What is doldrum?
400
An anti-cyclone is associated with this kind of pressure.
What is high pressure?
400
These are the three variables in the Milankovitch Cycle.
What is obliquity, eccentricity, and procession? (Accept shape of Earth's orbit, tilt, and wobble)
400
The four main stages that all stars go through.
What is Nebulae, Protostar, Main Sequence, and Red Giant?
400
Inertia is dependent on this factor.
What is mass?
400
Exist when the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force are balanced.
What are geostrophic winds?
500
The forces that cause surface ocean currents.
What is gravity, solar heating, wind, and the Coriolis Effect?
500
This happens to the climate when the carbon dioxide levels are lower.
What is the temperature will lower?
500
The stars located on the top right of the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram.
What are the Red Giants?
500
The change in direction or speed.
What is acceleration?
500
The imaginary boundary around a black hole that once an object passes, it can never return.
What is a black hole?
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