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Astronomy
Insolation and Seasons
Weather
Climate
Pot Luck
100
This takes 24 hours or 15 degrees per hour
What is Earth's Rotation
100
Gases like carbon dioxide and methane that absorb heat (infrared) energy
What are greehouse gasses
100
Characteristics of a Continental Polar airmass
What is an airmass with dry cool air?
100
Temperature and moisture
What are the two things that determine climate
100
The ratio of mass to volume for all matter
What is density
200
One year or 365.25 days
What is the length or time for Earth's revolution around the sun
200
The tilt of Earth's rotational axis
What is the main reason we have seasons
200
The amount of moisture in the air
What is humidity
200
The feature that has the biggest control on temperature
What is Latitude
200
A seismic wave that tarvels slowly and cannot pass through Earth's liquid outer core
What is an S-Wave
300
It takes 29.5 days
What is the length of time for all moon phases
300
The reason why different constellations are visible during different seasons of the year
What is Earth's revolution around the sun?
300
Temperature that water begins to condense and form clouds at
What is the dewpoint
300
The type of climate on the leeward side of the mountain due to the orographic effect
What is a hot, dry (desert-like) climate?
300
The idea that fossils found at deeper levels in a cliff are older than fossils found at higher elevations in the same cliff
What is the law of superposition?
400
Ptolemy's model of the solar system with the Earth in the middle
What is the geocentric model
400
Currents created by uneven heating of Earth's surface
What are global wind belts or convection zones
400
Differences in air pressure caused by uneven heating
What is the cause of wind
400
The feature that causes temperature to become lower as it increases (in the troposphere)
What is altitude
400
The thing that give all minerals their basic properties of luster, hardness, cleavage, fracture, color and streak
What is the arrangement of atoms in the mineral?
500
The day 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.
500
The type of electromagnetic radiation primarily responsible for energy on Earth
What is visible light
500
The process of cloud formation
What is rising air expands and cools to the dewpoint, then condenses?
500
This causes coastal areas to have a more moderated climate that inland areas at the same latitude
What is the high specific heat of water?
500
The change in wavelength from long to short as an object is moving towards the veiwer
What is blue shift