Weather & Climate
Water Cycle
Day & Night Cycle
Sun, Earth, and Moon
Random
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Describe the difference between weather and climate.
Weather is short-term, and climate is long-term
100
What are the 3 steps in the water cycle?
Precipitation, evaporation, condensation
100
What causes the day & night cycle?
Earth's rotation on it's axis
100
Which planet is being described below?
Saturn
100
What is the name of tool that we can use to look at planets and stars from earth?
A telescope
200
Is the following an example of weather or climate?
February is the coldest month of the year.
Climate
200
Define precipitation
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail
200
How long does it take the Earth to rotate one time on its axis?
24 hours
200
The Sun is about ______ times bigger than the Earth; the Earth is about ______ times bigger than the Moon.
When answering, make it clear which answer goes in which blank
a million; four
200
Name all eight planets in the correct order from the sun.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
300
Is the following an example of weather or climate?
Yesterday was sunny and breezy.
Weather
300
A student puts ice in a glass of water. After 20 minutes there are water droplets on the outside of the glass. Explain how this happened.
Gases in the air condensed into liquids when they touched the cold glass, creating water droplets on the outside of the glass
300
Does the sun move across the sky each day? Explain why or why not.
The sun does not move across the sky; Earth's rotation causes the Sun to appear to move across the sky as different sides of the Earth turn to face the sun.
300
Describe the composition of the Sun.
The Sun is composed mainly of the gases hydrogen and helium.
300
What steps do we use to answer short constructed responses (SCRs) in science?
CER; claim-evidence-reasoning
400
Describe the weather that Denver can expect over the next few days.
It will get colder, and probably be rainy with thunderstorms.
400
The picture below shows a cumulonimbus cloud forming over the ocean.
Describe how clouds are formed.
Teacher chooses if your answer is correct.
400
Describe how shadows look at noon versus how they look early in the morning.
Shadows at noon are thick and focused right beneath an object, while early in the morning they are thing and stretched out
400
Which bodies does the following statement describe?
- Does not support life
- Is a sphere of rock
- Has craters on it's surface
- Reflects light from the sun
- Orbits the earth
The Moon
400
How does the Sun interact with the ocean in the water cycle?
The heat from the sun evaporates the salt water, leaving behind the salt and allowing fresh water vapor to rise into the atmosphere
500
Give an example of weather and climate for our area
Teacher chooses if your answer is correct
500
Describe the water cycle.
Teacher chooses if your answer is correct.
500
Between which two letters would the sun most likely be positioned base on the location of the shadow?
The Sun will most likely be between W & Z
500
Which celestial bodies (Sun, Earth, and Moon) have an atmosphere?
The Sun and the Earth
500
Define atmosphere.
A layer of gas surrounding the planet, held in place by gravity