acronym: A word made by combining the first letters or letter groups of several words. For example, STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Radar is an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging. Even lasers are an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
amateur: A person who pursues something for fun rather than as a profession.
atmosphere: An envelope of gas surrounding the Earth, another planet, or the Moon.
atom: Basic unit of chemical elements. Atoms consist of a dense nucleus containing positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons. The nucleus of an atom is orbited by a cloud of negatively charged electrons.
aurora: A display of light in the sky that occurs when high-energy particles coming from the sun collide with gas molecules in a planet’s upper atmosphere. The best known of these is the Earth’s northern lights, or aurora borealis. In some outer gas planets, such as Jupiter and Saturn, the combination of fast rotational speeds and strong magnetic fields generates large electrical currents in the upper atmosphere above the planet’s poles. This can also cause auroral “light” shows in the upper atmosphere.
citizen scientist: Public volunteers — people of all ages and abilities — who participate in research. The data these citizen “scientists” collect helps advance research. Public participation means that science can access data from more people and places than if data were collected only by trained scientists.
colleague: A person who works with other people. colleagues and team members.
computer model: A program running on a computer that creates a model or simulation of real-world features, phenomena, or events.
data: Facts and/or statistics collected together for analysis. They are not necessarily organized in a way that gives them meaning. For digital information (the type stored by computers), these data are typically numbers stored in binary code and represented as strings of 0’s and 1’s.
dynamic: An adjective that means something is active, changing, or moving. (noun) the extent of change or variation observed or measured in something.
electric field: The area around a charged particle or object where forces are exerted on other charged particles or objects.
electronic:Negatively charged particles. It is usually seen orbiting the outer region of the atom. Also, a conductor of electricity within a solid body.
equator: An imaginary line around the Earth that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
excitement: (in chemistry and physics) the transfer of energy to one or more outer electrons within an atom. They remain in this higher energy state until they release excess energy by emitting some type of radiation, such as light.
picture: (In movies and videos) A term used to refer to an uncut or unprocessed moving image or video image taken with a camera. The name comes from the fact that it took several feet of film to take a few seconds of a movie photo.
Hue: A color or shade of a color.
ionosphere: The layer of Earth’s atmosphere located approximately 75 kilometers and 1,000 kilometers (47 kilometers and 620 miles) from the Earth’s surface. Absorbs the sun’s harmful extreme ultraviolet rays. That energy strips electrons from atoms and molecules, creating a zone filled with floating ions. The proportion of ions present here affects radio and other signals passing through it.
magnetosphere: The region surrounding the Earth (or other celestial body) where the magnetic field protects the Earth from the solar wind.
model: A simulation (usually using a computer) of a real-world event developed to predict one or more possible outcomes. Or an individual whose purpose is to show how something works or looks to another person.
molecule: An electrically neutral group of atoms that represents the smallest possible amount of a compound. Molecules can be made up of a single type of atom or different types of atoms. For example, oxygen in air has two oxygen atoms (O2) However, water has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom (H2oh).
morph: (In non-living systems) It refers to some thing, policy, or activity that has undergone change and become something that looks or appears new and different.
NASA: Abbreviation for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Founded in 1958, this American agency has been a leader in stimulating public interest in space research and exploration. It was through NASA that the United States put humans into orbit and eventually on the moon. Research vessels are also being sent to study planets and other celestial bodies in the solar system.
new zealand: An island nation in the southwest Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,500 kilometers (approximately 900 miles) east of Australia. Its “mainland”, consisting of the North and South Islands, is highly volcanically active. Additionally, the country has many much smaller offshore islands.
nitric oxide: A chemical (NO) that is involved in many biological functions, such as relaxing blood vessels and increasing blood flow. Inflammation of the lungs increases the levels of this chemical in exhaled breath. and potentially toxic pollutants released by the combustion of fossil fuels or produced by lightning. NO can be involved in the formation of smog ozone, a powerful lung irritant.
nitrogen: A colorless, odorless, non-reactive gaseous element that forms approximately 78 percent of Earth’s atmosphere. Its scientific symbol is N. When fossil fuels are burned, nitrogen is released in the form of nitrogen oxides. Comes in two stable formats. Both have 14 protons in the nucleus. But its nucleus has 14 neutrons. the other is 15. Because of their differences, they are known as nitrogen-14 and nitrogen-15 (or nitrogen-15), respectively. 14N and 15N).
aurora: Another name for Aurora. A display of light in the Northern Hemisphere sky caused by the collision of energetic particles from the sun with gas molecules in Earth’s upper atmosphere.
particle: A trace amount of something.
physicist: A scientist who studies the nature and properties of matter and energy.
Physics: Scientific study of the nature and nature of matter and energy. Classical physics explains the nature and nature of matter and energy based on descriptions such as Newton’s laws of motion. Quantum physics, a field of study that emerged later, is a way to more precisely describe the motion and behavior of matter. Scientists who work in such fields are known as physicists.
plasma: (in chemistry and physics) the gaseous state of a substance in which electrons are separated from atoms. Plasma contains both positively and negatively charged particles. (in medicine) the colorless liquid part of blood.
very: (in earth science and astronomy) the cold region of a planet farthest from the equator. The upper and lower ends of the virtual axis around which the celestial body rotates.
proton: An elementary particle that is one of the basic constituents of atoms that make up matter. Protons belong to a family of particles known as hadrons.
rocket: Something propelled into the air or into space, sometimes used as a weapon of war. Rockets typically ascend due to the exhaust gases released when some of the fuel is burned. (v.) Something that flies into space at high speed, as if fueled by combustion.
satellite: A moon orbiting a planet, or a vehicle or other manufactured object orbiting a celestial body in space.
sensor: A device that captures and stores or broadcasts information about physical or chemical conditions such as temperature, pressure, salinity, humidity, pH, light intensity, and radiation. Scientists and engineers often rely on sensors to tell them about conditions that can change over time or that exist far from where researchers can directly measure them. (in biology) structures used by living organisms to sense attributes of their environment, such as heat, wind, chemicals, moisture, trauma, or attack by predators.
spectrum: (plural: spectra) A series of related things that occur in a certain order. A range of types of electromagnetic radiation (in light and energy). They range from gamma rays to X-rays, ultraviolet light, visible light, infrared energy, microwaves, and radio waves.
of fever: of or relating to heat.
transition: A boundary where one thing (paragraph, ecosystem, life stage, state of matter) changes or transforms into another. Some transitions are abrupt or abrupt. Others change slowly or gradually from one state or environment to another.
speed: The speed of something in a particular direction.
wavelength: The distance between one crest and the next in a series of waves, or the distance between one wave and the next. It is also one of the “yardsticks” used to measure radiation. Visible light, like all electromagnetic radiation, travels as waves and includes wavelengths from about 380 nanometers (violet) to about 740 nanometers (red). Radiation with wavelengths shorter than visible light includes gamma rays, X-rays, and ultraviolet light. Longer wavelength radiation includes infrared radiation, microwaves, and radio waves.
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