Water and Climate
What are the frozen forms of precipitation?
Sleet, snow and hail
What shape is the lit part of the moon when it is in the crescent phase?
"C" or Banana
What is happening to Earth's temperature because of the harmful gases being added to the atmosphere?
Going up/increasing
What shape is Earth's orbit?
elliptical or oval
What do we call the place in the Pacific Ocean where plastic garbage has accumulated.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
When liquid water changes to water vapor.
Evaporation
How much of the visible moon is lit by the sun during a new moon?
NONE
What harmful gas is being added to the Earth's atmosphere by cars, factories and volcanoes?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
What 2 things cause the seasons?
Earth's revolution and unchanging tilt
What type of eclipse is happening when the Earth blocks the sun from hitting the moon?
Lunar Eclipse
When water vapor turns into a liquid.
Which moon phase is on either side of the full moon (where a big part of the moo is lit but it is not a full moon)?
Gibbous
How is land used as a resource (3 ways)?
clearing locations for homes and businesses
farming
natural habitat for animals
When will everyone on Earth have 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night?
Autumnal Equinox
What type of weather comes with a maritime tropical air mass? (temp and humidity)
Warm temperatures and high humidity
What word tells you how much water vapor is in the air?
Humidity
How much of the visible moon is lit by the sun during a full moon?
All of it
How can we use our resources wisely (conservation)? List 3 ways.
Reduce, reuse and recycle
Is this statement true or false? When the earth rotates, it spins on its axis and the Earth's revolution is its orbit around the sun.
TRUE
What type of eclipse is happening when the moon blocks the sun from hitting the Earth?
Solar Eclipse
What is a large area of air with similar temperature and humidity?
Air Mass
What phase is the moon when it looks like exactly half of the visible part is lit up?
Quarter
What is the BIGGEST way to reduce CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) in the atmosphere?
Reduce the burning of fossil fuels
In the Northern Hemisphere, what happens to the total daylight hours from June 21st to December 21st? (increase or decrease)
They decrease
The amount of gravitational pull on an object in the solar system depends on what two things?
Mass and distance from the sun