Astronomy #1
Places on the sun that are cooler then the rest of the sun.
What are Sunspots?
The invisible force that pulls objects towards each other.
What is Gravity?
A tool people use to help navigate areas that are new to them.
What is a map?
Minerals in soil come from these 3 sediments.
It is the average weather at a location over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
This type of Scientist studies and forecasts weather.
What is a Meteorologist?
A series of events that keeps repeating in order.
What is a cycle?
The Earths crust is divided into sections called this.
What are Tectonic Plates?
This is what Hypersaline means.
What is super salty?
The first hockey pucks used in early outdoor hockey games were made of this.
What is frozen cow manure?
The more you take, the more you leave behind.
What are footsteps?
This planet orbits the sun in an oval.
What is Mercury?
These 2 planets are often called planetary twins.
What is Neptune and Uranus?
The art of making maps or charts.
What is Cartography?
These are the 3 basic types of weathering.
What is Physical Weathering, Chemical Weathering and Biological Weathering?
There are this many general climate zones on Earth.
What is 5 zones?
This measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
Where our bodies get Essential Minerals from.
What is the food we eat?
The 3 phases of water and the reason ice floats.
What is solid, liquid and gas? And what is ice is less dense then water?
This does not exist in the abyssal plain in the ocean.
What is sunlight?
This was the last letter to be included in our alphabet.
What is the letter J?
I am easy to lift but hard to throw.
What is a feather?
This planet rotates the opposite way of most of the other planets.
What is Venus?
This is Saturns biggest moon.
What is Titan?
Imaginary vertical map lines on the earth that start at the North Pole and travel to the South Pole.
What are the Lines of Longitude?
This type of Weathering causes ice to crack or split rocks.
What is Physical Weathering?
This happens when a cold front and a warm front collide.
What is a storm?
What is rain, sleet, snow or hail?
The Rock Cycle consists of these 3 rocks.
What is Igneous rocks, Metamorphic rocks & Sedimentary rocks?
The weight of something pushing down on something else.
What is pressure?
When a living creature gives off its own light is it called this.
What is Bioluminescence?
This sport has been played on the moon.
What is Golf?
You can hold this in your right hand but never in your left hand.
What is your left hand?
Also known as a dirty snowball.
What is a comet?
It was this year that scientists reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet.
What is 2006?
The Earth is divided into this many time zones.
What is 24 time zones?
This happens when water, wind or another natural element wears something down and then transports it to another area.
What is Erosion?
Cirrus and Stratus are examples of these.
What are clouds?
What is either a supercomputer, a weather balloon, a doppler radar or a satellite?
The Carbon cycle mostly occurs here.
What is the Atmosphere?
A measure of how much stuff is in a certain space.
What is density?
This movie was filmed in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park.
What is Avatar?
This is how much wood that a woodchuck chucks if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
What a woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
This has hands but cannot clap.
What is a clock?
This is a giant storm that has been raging for 300 years and is bigger then earth.
What is the Great Red Spot on Jupiter?
These 2 people in our history helped us understand Astronomy better.
Who is Copernicus and Galileo?
The prime meridian passes through this town in England.
What is Greenwich, England?
Mountains, Canyons, Valleys and Plateaus are all examples of these?
What are Landforms?
Two types of Atmospheric systems that create much of our weather on the planet.
What is high pressure and low pressure systems?
Here are 3 things that would be included in a typical forecast.
What is the sky condition, temperature, precipitation, wind, time or severe weather?
The 4 main parts of the Water Cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection?
The combination of a climate zone & the life that exists in that zone.
What is a biome?
The giant crystals found in the Naica Cave in Mexico are made of this.
What is selenite?
This is how many breaths the average human takes in a day.
What is 17,000 to 23,000?
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed for 3 nights and rode out on Friday. This is how he did it.
What is his horses name is Friday?
This is the name of the North Star.
What is Polaris?
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
This is another name for the antimeridian at 180 degrees longitude.
What is the International Date Line?
This is the perfect type of soil to grow food in.
What is Loam?
During an Equinox, the Suns energy is focused here.
This is what a Hygrometer does.
What is measures the humidity, which is the amount of water vapour in the air?
This is what converts nitrogen in the air into nitrogen our bodies can use.
What is Bacteria?
These are the 5 Oceans of the world.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans?
This is what makes Surtsey near Iceland so special.
This is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
What is our teeth?
You are in a dark space with a wood stove, a gas lamp and a candle. This is what you would light first if you only had one match.
What is the match?