Miscellaneous
What is the 4th state of matter
Plasma
This is where stars are born
A planetary nebula
What is the hottest planet
Venus
What layer do we humans live in
Troposphere
How are air masses classified
Temperature and precipitation
When was the "Golden age" of modern astronomy?
600-150 bc
When the contents of a nebula begin to turn into a spinning disk creating a hot dense core
Protostar
What lies between the inner & outer planets
The asteroid belt
What layer can we find the Ozone in
Stratosphere
This type of air mass forms over the ocean
Maritime
This is the appearance of a planet temporarily moving backwards based on the angle of your location on Earth
Retrograde motion
An average mass star like our Sun is what type of star?
Red giant/Main sequence
It is not the dominant gravitational body in its orbit, so it isn't a planet
Pluto
What do meteorologists study?
Atmosphere and Weather
This type of weather front occurs when a warm air mass is caught between two cold air masses
Occluded front
He invented the first telescope
Galileo Galilei
Stars 30x the size of our Sun die and collapse to a single point, leaving this behind
This describes the belief that our solar system, our sun, and planets formed at approximately the same time
The nebular hypothesis
What percent of our breathable atmosphere is Oxygen?
Approximately 20%
List 3 types of severe weather
Thunderstorms, Hurricanes, Monsoons, Tornados, Blizzard, etc..
Dark regions on the Sun known to produce solar flares
Sunspots
This process forces atoms of hydrogen to combine forming heavier elements like helium, carbon, and lithium while producing also energy.
Nuclear Fusion
When a planet/moon stops rotating on its axis so only one side is facing the dominant gravitational body
Tidal Lock
The measure of kinetic energy of individual molecules in a substance
Temperature
These lines on a map represent locations with similar/equal amounts of pressure
Isobars