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Astronomy
Sunlight and Seasons
Weather
Climate
Pot Luck
100
This takes 24 hours or 15 degrees per hour
What is Earth's Rotation
100
Gasses like carbon dioxide and methane that absorb heat (infrared) energy
What are greehouse gasses
100

Polar air mass

What is an airmass with dry cool air

100
Temperature and moisture
What are the two things that determine climate
100

Name the two boundaries of tectonic plates

What is subduction and divergence

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 travels 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

Belt of the planet recieving the most sunlight on any given day of the year

What is the equatorial zone or tropical zone

300
Temperature that water begins to condense and form clouds at
What is the dewpoint
300
Air drops moisture on the windward side of mountains as it is forced to rise and cool by the mountains
What is the cause of most desert climates
300

Name the 3 types of rock

What are sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous

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
What is altitude
400

The thing that give all minerals their basic properties of luster, hardness, cleavage, fracture, color and streak

What is 6 properties that make up mineral composition

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

Name the 4 seasonal changes

What is vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox and winter sostice

500

Name at least 4 different phases of the water cycle

evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, (also percolation and sublimation)

500

Name the 2 types of earth's crust.

What is continental and oceanic- made up of granite and basalt

500

The type of orbit of earth and all the planets

What is an elipse