Earth and Space Science
Questions you should be able to answer by the end of this section:
- What causes day and night?
- What causes seasons?
- Why does the Northern and Southern Hemisphere experience different seasons?
- Why does the Equator experience no seasons?
- Why do we have moon phases?
- What are the different names of the moon phases?
- If you see full moon today, how many days later do you expect to see new moon?
- What causes tides?
- What is a galaxy?
- How are stars different?
- What is a nebula?
- What is an asteroid?
- What is a comet?
- What is a planet?
- What do we use to collect information about objects in our universe?
- What is the Big Bang Theory?
- How does red shift work?
- Why do we have a cold front?
- Why do we have a warm front?
- How does air move?
- What causes hurricanes?
- Who was Albert Wegener and why is he important?
- What causes volcanoes, earthquakes, mountains, trenches, and rift valleys?
- How do you read a topographic map?
- What is a satellite image and what information can you get from it?