Weather & Climate
What is Precipitation?
This planet is farthest from the Sun.
What is Neptune?
This is the path the Moon makes around the Earth.
What is an Orbit?
This is the number of seasons on Earth.
What is Four?
This is the layer of the Earth's atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the Troposphere?
This is a severe storm (like Sandy) with heavy rains, strong winds, and flooding.
What is a Hurricane?
This now exo-planet used to be the farthest planet from the sun.
What is Pluto?
This phenomenon is visible if you are in the Moon's path of totality.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
What is Winter?
This layer is where the Auroras form.
What is the Thermosphere or Ionosphere?
These are the atmospheric conditions at a particular time and place.
What is Weather?
This is the force that keeps planets in their orbits.
What is Gravity?
This property of the Moon prevents monthly eclipses.
What is the 5.1 degree tilt?
This is the reason for the seasons.
This layer of the atmosphere prevents most asteroids and meteorites from reaching the Earth.
What is the Mesosphere?
This is a reason many locations are experiencing warmer than average temperatures and more frequent severe storms.
What is Climate Change?
This planet is fourth from the Sun.
What is Mars?
This is the lighter portion of the shadow cast by a moon or planet.
What is the Penumbra?
This is the factor many people confuse as a reason for changing seasons.
What is distance from the Sun?
This layer protects the Earth from the Sun's UV radiation.
This is the pattern of weather and atmospheric conditions in one location over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
This is the only planet in our solar system capable of sustaining life.
This is the reason total lunar eclipses are more common than total solar eclipses.
What is the size of the moon's shadow?
This is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Summer Solstice?
This is the factor that always decreases the farther you get from the Earth's surface.
What is Air Pressure.