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- 1weather near the equator is in a continuous cycle fueled by ______heat
- 2why doesnt sweating cool you off in the jungle of belizeThe air is so damp it cant evaporate
- 3Describe what happens to the moist warm air that rises in the tropicsIt goes north and south; It rises 9 miles in the troposphere, cools, creates clouds, and gets a lot of rain
- 4What did the Space Shuttle Columbia discover under the Sahara Desert in 1981revealed mountain and river valleys beneath
- 5what is a habooba sand storm
- 6For how many consecutive days did it rain in Bergen Norway in 199083 days
- 7What kind of climate does the massive rive of warm water give to Britain and Irelandthe wet and mild climate
- 8What happened one night in the south of England in October 1987There was hurricanes
- 9What happened in Accrington one nightIt was raining apples. They were sucked up into the atmosphere
- 10How many tornadoes occur in the United Kingdomsame as US; 700-900
- 11At what elevation does weather stop, why6 1/2 miles up because very cold dry air
- 12what is the name of that portion of the atmosphere below where all the weather happenstroposphere
- 13what is the name of the place where the winds are born and where is this place locateddoldrums; either side of the equator
- 14if the air conditioning system of the Earth didnt exist the poles would be ____ degrees colder and the equator would be ______ degrees hotter25, 14
- 15The doldrums change their location throughout the year because they follow the ___seasons
- 16Where did Hurricane Andrew begin its life and how did it initially formOff coast of Africa, thunderstorms around area of low pressure, and started rotating counter-clockwise
- 17Like all tropical storms Andrew was fueled by ____heat
- 18How do the Jet Stream Winds help tornadoes to formsuck air at the top of the stream
- 19How big was the Bridge Creek Tornado on the Fujita ScaleF5
- 20How long was the strip of land that was affected by the Bridge Creek Tornado20 miles long
- 21What can constellations help us dowe can learn a lot about the galaxy, can help us find our way, direction, distance
- 22How many Constellations of the Zodiac are there13
- 23Which asterism is probably the easiest object in the night sky to findthe big dipper
- 24How many stars can you typically see on a very dark night with the naked eye1500-2000
- 25How long will it take for our constellations to be noticeably different and then unrecognizable10,000 years; 500,000 years
- 26What happened on July 20,1969Neil Armstrong took step on moon
- 27What are some possible explanations for LTPatmospheric effects, lunar dust due to turbulence in Earth's atmosphere, active volcanism, micrometeroid
- 28What are the dark colored areas on the Moonmaria-ancient lava beds
- 29Every month the Moon appears to change its shape during an ____ phase spin cycle8
- 30Is the moon always visible somewhere on the planetyes
- 31How fast is the speed of light186,000 miles per second
- 32How long does it take light to travel from Sun to the Earth8 minutes
- 33How long does it take a radio wave , moving at the speed of light, to travel to the Moon and back to Earth2.6 seconds
- 34How do astronomers use this tool to measure distances in vastness of spacethe greater the red shift the more distant the galaxy
- 35What type of star is our sunyellow dwarf
- 36what is the name of the process that powers the sunnuclear fusion
- 37what is a coronal mass ejectionsolar storms
- 38when is the only time we can actually "see" the Corona from Eartha total solar eclipse
- 39What will eventually happen to our SUnIT will die in 5 billion years eventually burn up all its fuel, contract, get so hot, burn helium, turn into red super giant, turn into white dwarf
- 40How long does it take Earth to make one lap around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy200 million years
- 41What is one advantage of our solar system being located in the outer edge our galaxyclear view outside of milky way
- 42What are the 4 basic galactic shapeselliptical, spiral, tenticular, irregular
- 43What is the actual shape of the Milky Way Galaxybarred spiral
- 44What lies in the huge central bulge in the center of the Milky Way Galaxysuper massive black hole
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