Moon Phases
Weather Maps
Seasons
Plate Tectonics
Miscellaneous
100
How many phases are there in the moons cycle?
8
100

What type of weather is occuring in Brownsville?

What is cloudy, windy, rainy
100
What causes the seasons.
The earths axis/tilt towards the sun
100

Name the three types of plate boundaries. Double points if you show correct hand motions for each type.

convergent, divergent, transform

100

All of the living factors in an ecosystem

What is "Abiotic"?

200
Starting from a new moon what is the third phase in the cycle?
First Quarter
200

What type of front is showing in the picture?

What is "Cold front"

200
If it is Autumn/Fall in the southern hemisphere what season is it in the northern hemisphere?
Spring
200

What is the name of the process at location C? 


subduction

200

If the moon is currently at a first quarter what kind of tides will be happening?

Neap Tide

300
Does the waxing crescent or the waning crescent come first?
Waxing Crescent
300

D

300

Which position shows the Northern Hemisphere in Spring? 


B

300

What is the name of this boundary, and that is created here?

Convergent subduction; trenches & volcanoes

300


What trophic level describes the snake?

400
The moon phase that occurs one week after a waxing gibbous

What is "waning gibbous"

400


D

400

TWO PARTS:

What season are the Northern and Southern Hemispheres in right now? 

WHY do the hemispheres experience opposite seasons?

Winter, Summer

Since we are tilted away from the sun, that makes the southern hemisphere tilt toward the sun. That causes us to receiev indirect sunlight and them to receive direct sunlight.

400

What is the name of this boundary? What is created here?


Divergent

Mid ocean ridges, rift valleys, new crust

400

How many tides are there in one day?

2 high + 2 low = 4 total

500
Name all of the different phases of the moon in order in a new cycle,.
New Moon, Waxing Crescent Moon, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous Moon, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous Moon, Third Quarter Moon, Waning Crescent Moon.
500

The type of air mass that occurs at the blue star?

What is continental polar?

500
Does the moon have any impact on the seasons?
No
500

What type of plate boundary did Harry Hess find that proved WHY plates move?

Divergent boundary (seafloor spreading)

500

The name of the eclipse when the moon is covering the sun?

What is "Solar Eclipse"?

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