Science Skills & Density
The amount of matter in an object
What is mass?
Water released from clouds as ice, snow, or rain
What is precipitation?
The job of an anemometer
What is measure wind speed?
The difference between waxing and waning
What is the light is getting bigger when it's waxing and smaller when it's waning
The most abundant type of galaxy in the universe
What is an spiral galaxy?
The formula for calculating density
What is mass divided by volume?
This is created when cool air moves in to replace warm air
What is wind?
This is what a red line with colored in half circles represents
What is a warm front?
The phase of the moon during a solar eclipse
What is new moon?
The type AND name of the galaxy to which we belong
What is a spiral galaxy called the Milky Way?
The reason hot air balloons rise
The air has less density
The layer of Earth where convection currents cause tectonic plates to move
What is the mantle?
The type of front formed when two air masses collide and neither moves
What is a stationary front?
The difference between rotation and revolution
What is rotation is going around an axis and revolution is going around an object?
The name of the person credited with the discovery of three different types of galaxies
Who was (Edwin) Hubble?
A metric instrument used to measure mass in grams
What is a triple beam balance?
The process in which the Sun heats the ground
What is radiation?
The type of weather that often accompanies a cold front
What is rain and colder temperatures?
The darkest part of a shadow during an eclipse
What is the umbra?
The difference between a meteor, meteoroid, and a meteorite
What is location? Meteoroids are out in space, meteors have entered the Earth's atmosphere, and meteorites have hit Earth's surface.
The method used to find the volume of an irregularly shaped object
What is the water displacement method?
The process of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking
What is a convection current?
Weather instrument used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
The phases in the full lunar cycle starting with new moon
What is new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last (third) quarter, waning crescent
How long it takes for the Sun's light to travel to Earth
What is 8.4 minutes?