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Earth
Sun
Moon
This and That
Vocabulary
100
This causes the Earth's seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
100
Galileo presented evidence for this idea.
What is that the Earth revolves around the Sun?
100
It takes this long for the moon to revolve completely around the Earth.
What is about a month?
100
This keeps the Earth and moon in their orbits.
What is "gravity"?
100
Give the full name from the abbreviations of the following air masses: cP, mP, and mT.
What are continental polar, maritime polar, maritime tropical?
200
These are two days of the year when the length of the day and night are equal.
What is the Vernal Equinox and the Autumnal Equinox?
200
The sun is a big fiery ball of gas called this.
What is a "star"?
200
Earth and the Moon have different gravitational forces because of this.
What are "masses"?
200
The summer solstice, or the day of the year with the most hours of daylight is in what month and day..
What is June 21st or 22nd?
200
Where would most weather be experienced when air masses interact?.
What is the front?
300
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun (Revolution).
What is 365 1/4 days?
300
Winds are caused by this.
What is the rising of warm air and the sinking of cool air?
300
The appparent changes in the shape of the Moon are known as this?
What are Moon Phases?
300
Rain usually falls on this side of a mountain range.
What is a windward?
300
Define a weather front.
What is a boundary between two air masses that differ in their temperature?
400
When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it is this in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is "summer"?
400
This occurs when the moon moves between the sun and the Earth, blocking some the the sun's light.
What is a "solar eclipse"?
400
During this process, the moon moves through the Earth's shadow, and cannot be seen for a short time.
What is a "lunar eclipse"?
400
The average temperature and the amount of rain it receives determines this.
What is "climate"?
400
As we see less and less of the lit part of the moon, we say that it is doing this.
What is "waning"?
500
The imaginary line that Earth rotates on is this.
What is it's "Axis"?
500
This is how the sun's rays strike the Earth in the summer.
What is "directly"?
500
The moon affects this part of the Earth, and they are moving streams of water created by winds that blow across the ocean.
What is the "ocean currents"?
500
The winter solstice, or the day of the year with the fewest hours of daylight, is on what day of each month?
What is December 20th or 21st?
500
Most of Earth's atmosphere is made up of this.
What is oxygen and nitrogen?