What situation occurs when the moon comes between the Sun and the Earth?
A) Solar Eclipse
B) Rotation
C) Revolution
D) Total Eclipse
A) Solar Eclipse
The most abundant gas in the atmosphere is what?
A) Nitrogen
B) Methane
C) Oxygen
D) Helium
A) Nitrogen
This type of cloud hangs at a low level, usually in a flat layer.
A) Stratus
B) Nimbus
C) Cumulus
D) Cirrus
A) Stratus
The energy of motion. Example: moving car or boy running.
A) Thermal
B) Mechanical
C) Radiant
D) Electrical
B) Mechanical
Largest estuary - Virginia's Watershed.
A) Atlantic Ocean
B) Chesapeake Bay
C) Bay of Fundy
D) Gulf of Mexico
B) Chesapeake Bay
This instrument measures humidity.
A) Rain Gauge
B) Thermometer
C) Hygrometer
D) Anemometer
C) Hygrometer
Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atoms makes up what type of molecule?
A) Nitrogen
B) Methane
C) Water
D) Helium
C) Water
The primary gas in the atmosphere responsible for the greenhouse effect is what?
A) Water Vapor
B) Carbon Dioxide
C) Ozone
D) Oxygen
B) Carbon Dioxide
Part of Earth's atmosphere that filters out the harmful rays of the sun.
A) Renewable Energy Sources
B) Greenhouse Effect
C) Solar Cells
D) Ozone Layer
D) Ozone Layer
a small rocky body orbiting the sun.
A) Asteroid
B) Comet
C) Meteor
D) Meteoroid
A) Asteroid
This is the movement of an object around an orbit, or path. It takes 365 1/4 days for the earth to make a complete one around the sun.
A) Rotation
B) Revolution
C) Precession
D) Orbit
B) Revolution
By burning these for energy, humans contribute to the greenhouse effect.
A) Oxygen
B) Solar Energy
C) Fossil Fuels
D) Wind Energy
C) Fossil Fuels
The moon's gravity is the cause of what?
A) Seasons
B) Earthquakes
C) Wind
D) Tides
D) Tides
Land where the water runs off into a large body of water.
A) Swamps
B) Watershed
C) Wetlands
D) Runoff
B) Watersheds
A type of storm called a tropical cyclone, characterized by strong, rotating winds that reach 74 mph or higher, often accompanied by heavy rain and torrential downpours.
A) Drought
B) Earthquake
C) Sunny
D) Hurricane
D) Hurricane
This forms when warm and cold air meet and neither air mass has the force to move the other. Therefore, they "stand still". Where the warm and cold air meet, clouds and fog form, and it may bring rain or snow. It can bring many days of clouds and precipitation.
A) Cold Front
B) Warm Front
C) Stationary Front
D) Occluded Front
C) Stationary Front
This layer of the atmosphere is closest to Earth. This is the most significant layer of Earth's atmosphere, where all weather occurs. Which layer is this?
A) Troposphere
B) Exosphere
C) Mesosphere
D) Ionosphere
A) Troposphere
Water freezing in a crack in a rock, expanding, and making the rock bigger is an example of what kind of weathering?
A) Genetic
B) Chemical
C) Physical
D) Latent
C) Physical
Rain, snow and sleet
A) Precipitation
B) Condensation
C) Evaporation
D) Transpiration
A) Precipitation
Has volume and takes up space.
A) Volume
B) Matter
C) Space
B) Matter
Because water dissolves more substances than other liquids, it is referred to as what?
A) Water Vapor
B) Solution
C) Compound
D) Universal Solvent
D) Universal Solvent
This is when the moon is going from a new moon to a full moon.
A) Waning
B) Waxing
C) Quarter
D) Full
B) Waxing
What happens to air pressure as altitude decreases?
A) Decrease
B) Stays Constant
C) Increase
D) Stays the same
C) Increase
The segment of the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye can view.
A) Ultraviolet
B) Visible Light
C) Radiation
D) Infrared
B) Visible Light
What are the charges of the following:
- proton
-electron
-neutron
- proton = positive
- electron = negative
- neutron = neutral