If an item gets warmer, is it gaining heat or losing cold?
What is gaining heat
100
Definition of Renewable energy
What is easily replaced
100
Where does the energy come from that drives the water cycle?
What is the sun
100
What comes out of every energy transformation?
What is thermal energy
200
Which item is biotic:
rainfall
insects
pesticide
time
What is insects
200
How radiation works
What is transfers heat through electromagnetic waves
200
Definition of Non-renewable energy
What is cannot be replaced or takes millions of years to replace
200
What step of the water cycle gains thermal energy?
Hint: it heats up and this step happens
What is evaporation
200
Why does a ball not keep bouncing?
the energy was converted to thermal and sound which went into the environment
300
What two categories define a biome
What are temperature and percipitation
300
Definition of Convection
What is transfer of heat through gas or liquid and involves differences in density
300
Where the thermal energy transfered to when a warm cup (the system) of water gets cooler
What is the energy was transferred from the sytem to the surrounding air
300
What step of the water cycle is thermal energy released?
Hint: the heat leaves causing water to change forms
What is condensation
300
If a pesticide is released that kills bug eggs, what will happen to bug populations?
They will go down because the pesticides killed the larvae of the bugs
400
What are the two types of biomes with the least amount of rainfall?
What desert and tundra
400
Definition of Conduction
What is transfer of energy by touching something
400
What does photosynthesis remove from the atmosphere?
What is carbon dioxide
400
What is transpiration?
What is when water evaporates from leaves
400
List the phases of the moon in order starting with new moon
What is new moon, waxing crescent, waxing first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, waning third quarter, wanging crescent
500
Describe the rainfall and temperature for a desert?
What is hot and dry
500
Energy transformation involved in going outside and nose and barefoot toes feel warmer
What is nose feeling warmer because of radiation and toes feeling warmer because of conduction
500
What does cellular respiration put back into the atmosphere?
What is carbon dioxide
500
what is condensation?
What is when water cools down and and becomes and liquid again in the clouds
500
What is the difference between spring and neap tides? Discuss moon position and reason for height of tides
Spring tides: sun, moon, and earth all in a line and there are extra high and extra low tides because sun and moon work together
Neap tides: sum, moon, and earth form 90 degree angle and there is less of a difference between high and low tides because sun and moon working against each other