Solar System
What is a big ball of hot gases?
a star
What is the vocabulary word for light and heat?
energy
The object that appears the largest in the night sky.
Moon
What the air is like outside at a given time.
weather
What happens in a blizzard?
heavy snow
What is a group of stars that form a star picture in the night sky?
constellation
The third planet from the sun.
Earth
True or False: The moon has it's own light.
False. The light from the moon comes from the sun.
Water vapor in the air.
Humidity
What is another name for a funnel cloud?
Tornado
What is the star closest to Earth?
the sun
Why does Earth have night and day?
Earth's rotation
Which tool can be used to see objects in the night sky?
telescope
The tool used to measure air temperature.
thermometer
What are the kinds of weather fronts?
Cold, Warm, Occluded, Stationary
What is a large ball of rock or gas that travels around the sun?
a planet
The path that the Earth moves around the sun in.
orbit
Vocabulary word for the holes that are made when a large rock moving through space hits the moon.
craters
What we call the measure of how hot or cold the air is.
temperature
What are the types of air masses?
Polar Continental, Tropic Continental, Polar Maritime, Tropic Continental, Arctic Continental
What do a sun, planets, and moon make up?
a solar system
Why does the Earth have seasons that change?
Earth tilts on its axis as it orbits the sun.
How many phases does the moon have?
8
The way water travels from land into the air and back again over and over is called the ________________
water cycle
What effect causes the wind and water patterns?
Coriolis