Circuit Lab
Relationship V = I × R is known as this law.
What is Ohm’s Law?
The boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
Convert 1 meter to centimeters.
What is 100 cm?
Satellite sensor that measures reflected sunlight is in this part of the spectrum.
What is the visible spectrum?
The two gas giants.
What are Jupiter and Saturn?
The unit of electric current.
What is the ampere?
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
SI base unit for mass.
What is the kilogram?
These unique “fingerprints” of surfaces in different bands help identify materials.
What are spectral signatures?
The dominant component of the Sun by mass.
What is hydrogen?
Device that opens a circuit automatically when current is too high in homes.
What is a circuit breaker—or GFCI for ground fault; accept breaker.
Puffy, cotton-like clouds often indicating fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
The prefix meaning one-thousandth.
What is milli-?
Radar that measures surface topography by timing returned signals.
What is SAR—synthetic aperture radar?
Small rocky bodies mostly between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids—or the asteroid belt?
He formulated the laws for series/parallel currents and voltages used in circuit analysis.
Who is Kirchhoff?
The apparent cooling due to evaporation of sweat relates to this variable of air moisture.
What is relative humidity?
2.5 L equals how many milliliters?
What is 2500 mL?
Common vegetation index calculated from near-infrared and red reflectance.
What is NDVI?
Jupiter’s moon with active volcanoes.
What is Io?
Temporary magnet created by current through a coil around iron.
What is an electromagnet?)
Large-scale wind pattern caused by pressure belts and Earth’s rotation, named for their direction of origin (30°–60°).
What are the westerlies?
Derived SI unit for force.
What is the newton?
This thermal property allows satellites to map land surface temperature at night.
What is thermal infrared emission?
The boundary where the Sun’s solar wind meets interstellar space.
What is the heliopause?