Solar System
This planet is the closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
This term is used to describe the study of weather.
What is Meteorology?
This man was the first person to walk on the Moon.
Who was Neil Armstrong?
A compass needle points this direction.
What is the magnetic north pole?
The Earth makes a full rotation on its axis in this amount of time.
What is once every 24 hours?
This term is used to describe the calm center of a hurricane.
What is the Eye?
This American aviator was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who was Amelia Earhart?
This is a particle of an atom that is negatively charged.
What is an electron?
This is the brightest planet in the night's sky.
What is Venus?
Thunderstorms are caused by this form of cloud.
What is Cumulonimbus?
This aircraft was destroyed in a disaster while attempting to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey.
What is the LZ 129 Hindenburg?
What is speed?
This term is used to describe the moment or duration of total obscuration of the sun or moon during an eclipse.
What is totality?
This causes a jet stream and they predominantly blow in this direction.
What are two air masses of very different temperatures and blows from west to east?
The Wright Brothers first took flight on December 17, 1903 in this airplane.
What was the Wright Flyer?
This term is used to describe the universal force of attraction acting between all matter.
What is gravity?
These planets can be seen without a telescope. (Hint: There are five)
What is Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter?
A storm is categorized as this number on the Beaufort Scale.
What is the number 10?
This was the first aircraft to fly at supersonic speeds.
What was the Bell X-1?
This statement, "For every force there is an opposite force that is equal in size but opposite is direction", has its own name.
What is Newton's Third Law?