Water
Seawater freezes at this temperature
Freshwater?
27 degrees seawater
32 degrees freshwater
In the Western Pacific, hurricanes are called ___________
Typhoons
A solar eclipse occurs when the ______________ is between the ______________ and ____________.
moon, earth, sun
List all 8 planets in order from the sun
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
First American in space
Alan Shepherd
Name the five oceans in alphabetical order
Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, Southern
A cloud-to-ground or cloud-to-cloud discharge is called what?
Lightning
The visible surface of the sun is called what?
Photosphere
When a planet appears to stop and then move backward against the stars in the background, it is showing ________________.
Retrograde Motion
The first man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
They are sometimes called the "rainforests of the seas"
Coral Reefs
The kind of violent storm that has the greatest wind speed is a what?
Tornado
The outer region of the sun's atmosphere is the what?
Corona
SSSB stands for what?
Small Solar System Body
The theory that states the sun is the center of the solar system
Heliocentric Theory
The ____________Zone is the first layer of the ocean that light does not penetrate
Aphotic
A _______________is caused by an earthquake and a _____________ is caused by regular changes in sea levels and by the gravitational pull of the moon.
Tsunami, Tidal Wave
During the first half of the lunar month, the moon is said to be _________________.
Waxing
The two key elements in our atmosphere are what
Nitrogen and Oxygen
A device that is powered by a reaction engine and this other device follows a one-way path from earth
Rocket and a probe
Marine snow would be the most important to organisms living in the ____________ zone
Abyssal
The speed of a tsunami is _________________ out at sea than as it approaches land and the height of a tsunami gets _____________ as it approaches land
faster, higher
An astronomical unit is defined as the distance between the what?
Earth and the sun
A probe that is designed to land softly on a planet and a smaller body that orbits a larger one
Lander and a satellite
___________ _________ orbited over the moon in the ____________ 11 command module while Neil Armstrong and _________ ___________ walked on the moon
Michael Collins, Apollo, Buzz Aldrin