Atmosphere page
Essential Question #1: - What are the components of the earth’s atmospheric layers (including the hydrosphere)
and their characteristics?
Essential Question #2: How does thermal energy transfer by the processes of conduction, convection and
radiation?
**Vocabulary - Section 1 - weather, atmosphere, ozone, water vapor
Section 2 - density, pressure, air pressure, barometer, mercury barometer, aneroid barometer,
altitude
Section 3 - troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere, exosphere
Section 4 - pollutants, photochemical smog, acid rain
Astronomy - page
* supplies needed - 2 1 liter bottles (think soda bottles)
Essential Question #1: What is the relationship of celestial bodies in the universe (earth, stars, sun, planets and galaxies) as they relate to each other in distance (apparent and absolute), motion and size?
Essential Question #2: What are the effects of the location and movements of the earth, sun and moon (in terms of tides, eclipses, gravitational pull, moon phases, day and night, time zones and seasons)?
**Vocabulary - Section 1 - astronomy, axis, rotation, revolution, orbit, solstice, equinox
Section 2 - force, gravity, law of universal gravitation, mass, weight, inertia, Newton's first law of motion
Section 3 - phases, eclipse, solar eclipse, umbra, penumbra, lunar eclipse, tide, spring tide, neap tide
Section 4 - telescope, maria, craters, meteoroids
Section 5 - rocket, thrust, velocity, orbital velocity, escape velocity, satellite, space shuttle, space station, space probe, rover
Essential Question #1: - What are the components of the earth’s atmospheric layers (including the hydrosphere)
and their characteristics?
Essential Question #2: How does thermal energy transfer by the processes of conduction, convection and
radiation?
**Vocabulary - Section 1 - weather, atmosphere, ozone, water vapor
Section 2 - density, pressure, air pressure, barometer, mercury barometer, aneroid barometer,
altitude
Section 3 - troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere, exosphere
Section 4 - pollutants, photochemical smog, acid rain
Astronomy - page
* supplies needed - 2 1 liter bottles (think soda bottles)
Essential Question #1: What is the relationship of celestial bodies in the universe (earth, stars, sun, planets and galaxies) as they relate to each other in distance (apparent and absolute), motion and size?
Essential Question #2: What are the effects of the location and movements of the earth, sun and moon (in terms of tides, eclipses, gravitational pull, moon phases, day and night, time zones and seasons)?
**Vocabulary - Section 1 - astronomy, axis, rotation, revolution, orbit, solstice, equinox
Section 2 - force, gravity, law of universal gravitation, mass, weight, inertia, Newton's first law of motion
Section 3 - phases, eclipse, solar eclipse, umbra, penumbra, lunar eclipse, tide, spring tide, neap tide
Section 4 - telescope, maria, craters, meteoroids
Section 5 - rocket, thrust, velocity, orbital velocity, escape velocity, satellite, space shuttle, space station, space probe, rover