Show:
The Force
The Seasons
The Moon
Meteorology
Potpourri
100

Gravity, inertia, pressure, etc. are all INVISIBLE forces. (True or False)

What is TRUE?

100

This is the length of time it takes for the Earth to make one full revolution around the sun.

What is about 365.25 days (365.242 days) or one year?

100
This is the name of the period of time it takes the MOON to make 1 full orbit around the EARTH
What is a MONTH
100

This is the direction that weather generally moves across the United States.

What is from West to East?

100

This causes day and night.

What is the Earth's rotation on its axis?

200

These are the two factors that affect the strength of the force of gravity between two objects

What are MASS and DISTANCE?

200

This is why days are warmer in the summer (in the northern hemisphere)

What is because the northern hemisphere tilts toward the sun, the  sun appears to be higher in the sky for longer hours and rays are more direct ?

200
This is approximately how long it takes the moon to complete a full cycle of phases (from new moon back to new moon)
What is 29-30 days OR 29.5 days
200

This is the type of heat transfer by which the troposphere is mostly heated.

What is convection?

200

This occurs on Sept 21st.

What is the autumnal equinox on the Northern Hemisphere and Spring Equinox on the Southern Hemisphere?

300

These are the two forces that keep the moon in orbit around the Earth

What is GRAVITY and INERTIA?

300

These are the reasons for the seasons!

What are:

 the Earth is a sphere and  it is tilted on its axis as it revolves around the Sun?

300

This is why the moon looks different at different times of the month.

What is:

DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF THE LIT SIDE OF THE MOON WE SEE FROM EARTH, AS THE MOON ORBITS THE EARTH?

300

When you go higher up in the atmosphere, air pressure ________________

What is DECREASES?

300

This is the force that causes currents (air and ocean) to curve.

What is the Coriolis Effect?

400

Because there is no air on the moon, the moon has no gravity (TRUE or FALSE)

What is FALSE? 

(The moon has mass, thus it has gravity)

400

True or false. Earth's distance from the sun is the reason why it is warmer during the summer.

What is FALSE?

(The distance between the Sun and Earth has nothing to  with the seasons on Earth).

400

This is the order of the Earth, Sun and Moon during a solar eclipse.

What is Earth, Moon, Sun?

400

This is how local winds differ from global winds.

What is unequal heating of the atmosphere over short distances?

400

This occurs on March 21st.

What is the vernal equinox on the Northern Hemisphere and the autumnal equinox on the Southern Hemisphere?

500

When an astronaut drops a rock on the moon, the rock will _______________

What is fall to the ground?

500
This is why it is hotter in New Jersey in July than it is in December
What is because the northern hemisphere is TILTED towards the sun in July receiving more direct rays of sunlight than in December when the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun.
500

This is the order of the Earth, Moon and Sun during a lunar eclipse.

What is Sun, Earth, Moon?

500

This is the factor by which the layers of the atmosphere are classified.

What is by TEMPERATURE?

500

This is the type of heat transfer that the troposphere is MOSTLY heated by.

What is CONVECTION?