What is it called when the moon is directly in between the earth and the sun?
What is Solar eclipse
100
What is the main cause of the seasons?
What is the 23.5 degree tilt of the earths axis.
100
True or false, Pluto is the smallest planet in our solar system.
What is false
100
What is the name for the phase of the moon where the moon is behind the earth?
What is full moon
100
what form of heat transfer is observed with boiling water?
What is convection
200
How often do we experience high and low tides?
What is twice a day
200
What is the name for the day of the year in which the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun at its most extreme angle?
What is summer solstice
200
What is the formula for Newton's law of universal gravitation?
What is F=G*M1M2/r^2
200
How much of the moon's surface is reflecting light from the sun during a new moon?
What is exactly half
200
What type of heat transfer drives plate tectonic movements?
What is convection currents
300
When the moon is at its farthest point in its orbit, and is directly between the earth and the sun, we would experience a _________________ somewhere on earth.
What is annular eclipse
300
if Brazil, South America is experiencing a fall equinox, what day in the year would it be in Minnesota?
What is March 21st
300
How much gravity would you experience if you were floating in the international space station as it orbits around the earth?
What is about the same as earth.
300
When is moon appears to be getting waning it is said to be _________.
What is waning
300
write down a list of all of the planets from the planet closest to the sun, to the planet farthest from the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
400
What is name for the type of tide that occurs during a full moon?
What is spring tide
400
how many hours of daylight are their in Anchorage, Alaska during the spring equinox? What about in Jamaica?
What is 12, and 12
400
Kepler's first law of planetary motion states that satellites orbit around objects in ___________
What is ellipses
400
What is the name for the moon when it is three quarters full?
What is Gibbous
400
What is the largest planet in our solar system? The smallest?
What is Jupiter, Mercury
500
How long does it take for the moon to make one full rotation about its axis?
What is 27.3 days
500
During what month is the earth closest to the sun in its orbit?
What is January
500
What are the two factors that can be used to relate two satellites orbiting around the same planetary body?
What is period of the satellites rotation, and average distance the satellite is from the object it is orbiting around.
500
What is the difference between a new moon, and a lunar eclipse?
A new moon = the moon is between the earth and the sun, and the half of the moon receiving the suns light is not being reflected back at the earth. A lunar eclipse is when the earths shadow moves over the moon.
500
Explain how a Foucault pendulum can be used to prove the earth rotates about an axis.
What is The earth spins beneath a pendulum that does not change direction. If we know the pendulum is not changing direction, but it appears to be. We can conclude that earth must be moving beneath the pendulum.