Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place in our atmosphere.
What is weather?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100
Astronomers who proved that the sun was the center of the Solar System.
Who are Copernicus and Galileo?
200
The Earth ______ around the sun and ______ on its axis.
What are revolves and rotates?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200
The sentences used to remember the order of the planets
What are "My Very Exceptional Mother Just Served Us Nachos" and "Jason Sent Us Nine Extremely Valuable Matching Mittens?"
300
Are the reasons for the seasons on Earth
What are the earth’s movement and tilt?
300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
Astronomers who believed the earth was the center of the Solar system.
Who are Aristotle and Ptolemy?
400
How NASA’s Apollo missions were important to our understanding of the moon
What are a) set up instruments to record movement on the moon and to measure distances, b) collected samples of rocks and dust to determine what the moon was made of.
c) landed the first man on the moon in 1969.
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400
The planets in order from the sun
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
500
The eight phases of the moon
What are new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
500
Weather information for making forecasts are collected from
What are RADAR, SATELLITES, and WEATHER BALLOONS?
500
The order of the planets small to large.
What are Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter?