What's the Weather Like?
A storm with lightning and thunder.
What is a thunderstorm?
Anything that has mass and takes up space is called this.
What is matter?
The continuous process that changes rocks from one type to another.
What is the rock cycle?
Earth’s natural satellite.
What is the Moon?
Earth rotates on this imaginary line.
What is an axis?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
The center of an atom containing protons and neutrons.
What is the nucleus?
This mineral property describes how a mineral reflects light.
What is luster?
The phase when the Moon appears completely lit.
What is a full moon?
One complete trip Earth makes around the Sun.
What is a revolution?
A scientist who studies weather.
Who is a meteorologist?
The substance that does the dissolving.
What is the solvent?
The color of a mineral’s powder is called this.
What is streak?
This occurs when the Moon blocks sunlight from reaching Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
The path a planet follows around the Sun.
What is an orbit?
The calm center of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
This process changes a liquid into a gas.
What is evaporation?
The process where sediments settle out of water or wind.
What is deposition?
The force that keeps the Moon orbiting Earth.
What is gravity?
The reason Earth experiences seasons.
What is Earth’s tilted axis?
This layer of Earth’s atmosphere contains most weather events.
What is the troposphere?
The amount of matter in an object is called this.
What is mass?
This rock type often contains visible layers and fossils.
What is sedimentary rock?
The Moon’s gravity causes these on Earth.
What are tides?
This layer protects Earth from many meteoroids burning up before reaching the ground.
What is the atmosphere?