Astronomy
This process helps our Sun (and all other stars) generate energy that keeps us warm.
What is nuclear fusion?
Gasses like carbon dioxide and methane that absorb heat (infrared) energy.
What are greenhouse gasses?
This type of airmass is characterized by dry cool air.
What is a continental polar airmass?
This phenomenon causes hurricane paths to curve to the right in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
A seismic wave that travels relatively slowly and cannot pass through Earth's liquid outer core.
What is an S-Wave?
This characteristic of a Nebula cloud determines the life cycle path for a star.
What is mass or size?
The main reason we have seasons.
What is the tilt of Earth's rotational axis?
The amount of moisture in the air
What is humidity?
This feature has the biggest effect on the temperature at a given location.
What is Latitude or angle of insolation?
The percentage of a radioactive isotope remaining after 2 half-lives.
What is 25%?
Cosmic Background Radiation.
What is evidence for the Big Bang?
Region of the planet receiving the most insolation on any given day of the year.
What is the Equator or Equatorial zone?
Temperature that water begins to condense and form clouds.
What is the dewpoint?
This phenomenon causes the windward side of a mountain range to be cool & moist while and the leeward side to be warm & dry.
What is Orographic Effect?
This can be determined by knowing that the open side of "V" shaped contour lines point downhill.
What is the direction of stream or river flow?
The change in wavelength of light from short to long as an object is moving away from an observer.
What is Red Shift?
Currents created by uneven heating of Earth's surface.
What are global wind belts or convection currents?
A phrase used by Mr. Johnson to describe the weather associated with high air pressure & low air pressure.
What is "High & dry, Low & lousy?"
This measurable feature causes temperature to become lower as it increases in the Troposphere.
What is altitude?
This characteristic gives all minerals their basic properties of luster, hardness, cleavage, fracture, color and streak.
What is mineral composition or atomic arrangement?
Because of this reason, there is not a solar eclipse every time the Moon is in the New Moon phase.
What is the tilt of the Moon's orbit?
The day that sunlight hits the Tropic of Cancer (23.5 degrees North) directly (at a 90 degree angle).
What is Summer Solstice or Longest day of the year, June 21?
The type of weather front most commonly associated with thunderstorms.
What is a cold front?
The reason that locations near a large body of water have a smaller annual temperature range than other locations not near water at the same latitude.
What is specific heat?
This scientific law states that relative ages of rock layers can be determined by comparing their position to other rock layers above and below them.
What is the Law of Superposition?