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- fission theory
- the moon came out of the Pacific Ocean
- water vapor changes to dew
- condensaton
- probe
- man made ofject thatr orbits planets
- simile
- a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
- protagonist
- main character of a story
- setting
- the time and place in which a story taked place
- condensation nucleus
- makes rain drops
- inciting incident
- the event that sets the other elements of the plot in motion
- meteorology
- study of the weather
- accretion theory
- moon was formed from the same dust cloud as the earth
- rising action
- the events that follow the inciting incident and lead up to the crisis in a story
- Alan Shepard
- first american in space
- hail changes to rain
- melting
- orographic
- assocrain shadow effect thet causes one side of a mountain to get more rain then the other
- antagonist
- the character who struggles against the protagonist
- project Apollo
- put the first man on moon
- water vapor changes to clouds
- condensation
- cloud droplets change to hail
- evaporation
- John Glenn
- first american to orbit earth
- capture theory
- the earth captured the moon
- fable
- a brief, fanciful story that seeks to expand on a moral
- developing characters
- a character who changes as the story progresses
- apogee
- moon's farthest point from the earth in orbit
- climax
- the point at which the story reaches the moment of highest motional intensity
- dew changes to water vapor
- evaporation
- evaporation
- of the state that causes cooling to the surroundings
- snow changes to water vapor
- sublimation
- metaphor
- an expression of one thing in terms of another
- static characters
- a character who remains essentially the same throughout the story
- falling action
- the plot element that unfolds the result of the crisis and leads to the resolution
- water vapor changes to frost
- sublimation
- alto
- middle clouds
- GPS
- absolute location
- earthshine
- sun light reflected off the moon
- lunar eclipse
- the earth is between the sun and the moon
- atmosphere
- envolope of gases
- sleet changes to water
- melting
- dew piont
- temp at which the relitive humitiy is = to 100%
- acid precipitation
- caused by air pollutants
- satellite
- man-made object in space orbiting planets
- solar eclipse
- moon is between the earth and the sum
- Eileen Collins
- first woman in space
- Neil Armstrong
- first man on moon
- crisis
- major turning point for the main character
- convergence
- collision of 2 or more single masses or winds at a single location
- rain to sleet
- freezing
- wind-chill factor
- how cold wind feels to an average person
- villain
- an evil or cruel antagonist
- supercooled water
- water below freezing state
- jet stream
- paths of fast winds
- adiabatic cooling
- cause condintion and clouds to form when a humid air mass is lifted higher into the atmosphere
- personification
- giving human characteristics to something that is not human
- project Gemini
- prepared the U.S. for the moon
- plot
- series of incident arranged in order to move the story
- liquid water changes to water vapor without boiling
- evaporation
- project mercury
- put the first american man in space
- resolution
- the final outcome of a story
- cirro
- clouds that curl
- freezing nucleus
- makes ice cyrstals
- expostion
- technique that introduces the reader to the situation and the setting
- temperature
- the amount of of thermal energy
- strato
- clouds spread out
- perigee
- moon's closest point to the earth in orbit
- coalescence
- smaller pieces joining together to form a single larger rain drop