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Energy
Earth's Systems
Weather/Climate
Star properties
Space Scientists
100
type of energy fromed using the Earth's temperature
What is geothermal energy?
100
transfer of energy via colliding molecules Hint: answer in school-house rock form
Conduction, junction..what's your function?
100
study of weather and climate
What is meteorology?
100
remains of a gigantic star with a tremendous gravitational pull
What is a black hole?
100
first person to use a telescope to study space objects
Who is Galileo?
200
machine with fan-blades used in generating most forms of energy
What is a turbine?
200
earth's organisms and environment in which they live
What is the biosphere?
200
global wind system that flows at 30 degrees north and south latitude
What are the tradewinds?
200
a graph that displays relationship of stars' mass, temperature, diameter, and luminosity
What is an H-R diagram?
200
He developed the Laws of Planetary Motion
Who is Kepler?
300
type of energy formed using heat/light from the sun
What is solar energy?
300
a blanket of gases surrounding earth that contains mostly nitrogen and oxygen
What is the atmosphere?
300
this is what the temperature feels like due to humidity
What is the heat index?
300
two stars that are gravitationally bound to each other
What is a binary star?
300
developed the Theory of Relativity
Who is Einstein?
400
transfer of energy via electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
400
Day 1: Down, up, pause, down Day 2: Down, up, pause, down Hint: water cycle
What is precipitation, evaporation, condensation, precipitation?
400
this is what happens when wind sweeps away your body heat
What is the wind-chill factor?
400
how much energy a star gives off per second
What is luminosity?
400
was one of the first scientists to challenge geocentrism
Who is Copernicus?
500
transfer of energy via colliding molecules
What is conduction?
500
all the water in Earth's oceans, lakes, rains, rivers, etc.
What is the hydrosphere?
500
wind system that blows from the east to the west
What are the polar easterlies?
500
how bright a star would be if it were only 10 parsecs from the earth
What is absolute magnitude?
500
described the expansion of the universe by observing and describing redshifts/galaxy classifications
Who is Hubble?