Interactions of Spheres
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather is a daily atmospheric conditions whereas the climate is the characteristics identified over a lengthier period of time (i.e., season)
What makes Earth unique from the other planets in our Solar System?
Atmosphere, oceans, presence of life.
True or False: only our Solar System contains planets.
False
Other stars appear much smaller than the sun because ___________________________.
They are much farther away.
Why do we use models in science?
To observe and study things that are too small or too big to see
These are the largest objects within a galaxy.
What are stars?
Define a Star
Giant ball of gases made up of hydrogen and helium
When you are sore and put ice on your knees, where is the heat traveling from and to?
From your knee to the Ice.
This makes an astronomical object, like a planet, become spherical.
What is Gravity?
This explains why the objects in the Kuiper Belt orbit the Sun.
What is Gravity?
As a star increases in size, this will also increase [Name 3 factors].
What is Gravity, Brightness, and Mass?
You use an empirical evidence to form an __________.
What is an inference?
Galaxies are usually one of these three general shapes.
What is spiral, elliptical, and irregular?
What is another word for absolute brightness?
What is luminosity?
How is temperature related to heat?
Temperature indicate how much heat / thermal energy there is in an object
Planets are large enough to become spheres, but not massive enough to initiate nuclear fusion. If they were able to initiate nuclear fusion, they would instead be considered ___________.
What are stars?
The Sun has several layers. Which layer is most visible to an observer on Earth?
What is the Photosphere?
[Daily Double] A star in the sky that is brighter than any other star. What are you noticing about the star?
What is Apparent Brightness?
To confirm their findings and improve the claims being made over their discovery / experiments.
The closest star to Earth other than the Sun is Proxima Centauri. What's true about Proxima Centauri?
It is in the same galaxy as we are.
Which group of star [Size wise] is the sun?
What is the main sequence star?
How does El Nino influence weather?
Global warming warms up the oceans which then cause more severe weather (i.e., hurricanes, typhoons)
Planets like Earth and Mars are considered to reside in the "Goldilocks" zone. Considering the characteristics of both of these planets, what do you think "Goldilocks zone" means?
The conditions are right for the living organisms to live.
Name all of the sources of visible light within our solar system.
ONLY THE SUN.
These are two ways in which energy is transferred from the Sun’s core to its photosphere.
What are Radiation and Convection?
Scientific knowledge _____________ as new evidences are discovered by experiments / findings.
What is changes?
Name three visible parts of the sun.
What group of star contains the highest luminosity with the highest temperature?
[Daily Double] Heat always travels from _________ to ________
What is Hot / Warmer to Cold / Cooler?
Planets must travel around a star in a continuous, elliptical path while not colliding with other large objects. This pathway is called a(n) _____________.
What is orbit?
To get the sun to appear bigger in our sky, the distance between sun and earth has to _______________.
Decrease.
These are the typical layers of a main-sequence star (like our own), starting from center-outward.
Core, Radiation Zone, Convection Zone, Photosphere, Chromosphere, Corona.
Data collected from an experiment / observation.
What is an empirical Evidence
[Daily Double] Of the three general shapes of galaxies, our Milky Way galaxy is this shape.
What is spiral?
Put the colors in order from the coldest to the hottest. [Yellow, Blue, White, Red]
[Coldest] Red, Yellow, White, Blue [Hottest]