Planets
What are the names of the planets?
Mercury,Venus,Earth,Mars,Jupiter,Saturn Uranus,Neptune
What are three things that all living organisms depend on?
Healthy environment, clean air, and clean water
What do we call energy of motion?
What occurs when gases in our atmosphere cause the Earth to absorb more heat than it releases?
Greenhouse Effect
What is formed when bodies of water absorb heat and water evaporates?
Clouds
What mnemonic device can you use to remember the order of planets?
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What do we call resources that are limited in supply?
Nonrenewable resources
What type of energy is produced by simple machines, wind, and water? (Chemical, mechanical, or electrical)
Mechanical
In what layer of the atomsphere does most weather occur?
Troposphere
The invention of what instrument allowed scientists to learn more about our solar system
Telescope
How are the four inner planets different from the four outer planets?
Inner– relatively Small and rocky
Outer – large and gaseous
List some examples of nonrenewable resources:
Coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power
What type of energy is contained in food, fuel, and batteries?
Chemical energy
What type of weather is associated with a cold front?
Severe storms followed by cooler weather
What three things have the most effect on the weather conditions?
Thermal energy, air pressure and water vapor
What is found between Mars and Jupiter? (it divides the inner and outer planets)
Asteroid Belt
What do we call resources that are not limited in supply? (they can be replaced by nature)
Renewable resources
What type of energy? Fusion, fission
Nuclear energy
What is an intense tropical storm with winds greater than 119 km/hour?
Hurricane
What causes the phases of the moon?
The revolution of the moon around the Earth and which part of the sunlight side of the moon we see.
What is it called when a planet or moon orbits around another object?
Revolution: revolving
List some examples of nonrenewable resources
Water, wind, sun, plant and animal life
What type of energy? Circuits, lightning
Electrical energy
What does a cumulus cloud look like and what kind of weather is it associated with?
Cumulus--- puffy; fair weather
What causes the seasons?
The tilt of earth’s axis and angle of the sun.