Lesson 1- Movement in Space
A giant ball of superheated gas, or plasma, composed of hydrogen and helium
What is a star?
The imaginary line through the Earth that it rotates around.
What is the axis?
The moon blocking the sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
The absorption of heat by gases in the Earth's atmosphere after it bounces off the Earth.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Long-term weather patterns in an area.
What is climate?
A cold mixture of dust and ice that develops a long trail of light as it approaches the sun
What is a comet?
The two types of the Earth's movement.
What is rotation and revolution?
The earth casting a shadow on the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
The curving of winds due to the Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This is made from dinosaur bones.
What are fossil fuels?
A pattern or picture in the stars
What is a constellation?
The "longest" day of the year for the Northern hemisphere.
What is the summer solstice?
This causes the pull of the tides on the Earth's surface.
What is gravity?
The largest and most powerful surface current in the North Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The prediction of global temperature in the near future.
What is temperature will rise?
A small piece of rock or ice floating through space
What is a meteoroid?
The resistance to change in motion.
What is inertia?
The largest tide possible.
What is a spring tide?
The three types of heat transfer.
What is convection, conduction, and radiation?
One of the greenhouse gases.
What is carbon dioxide, methane, or water vapor?
The model that stated that the earth was the center of the universe
What is the geocentric model?
The reason for the Earth's seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth on its axis?
The area of an eclipse where the sun is only partially blocked.
What is the penumbra?
Deep ocean currents originate (usually) here.
What is the poles?
Solar power, wind power, electricity.
What are alternative fuels?