Vocab
A measure of the force of gravity on a body.
What is weight
This air mass is drawn as a line with triangles and often brings heavy but brief rains.
What is a cold front?
This state of matter cannot be compressed.
What are liquids?
The element that is most plentiful in the air.
What is Nitrogen?
The study of reality, its laws and patterns.
What is physics?
The quantitative, conserved property that a system or body possesses enabling it to do work, such as moving an object against a force.
What is energy?
This every day weather phenomenon is caused by air moving from low pressure zones to high.
What is wind?
This Greek Physicist famously discovered the relationship between displacement and buoyancy.
Who was Archimedes?
The fluctuating force that averages 14 psi at sea level.
A tall, thin vessel that stand in its own and is used frequently in laboratories.
What is a graduated cylinder?
The phenomenon in which a liquid element “grabs” on to itself.
What is cohere?
The layer of atmosphere where most of earth’s weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
This factor can change the density of water causing it to rise or fall
What is Temperature?
The difference between high air pressure below an object and low pressure above it.
What is lift?
A essential circulation system of three steps that can happen in any order and include all three states of matter.
What is the water cycle?
The measure of energy transfer that occurs when an object is moved over a distance by an external force
What is work?
The accepted method for describing humidity levels.
What is the percent of total water carrying capacity used by the air at current temperature?
A vase with holes drilled in it to prove that liquids exert pressure evenly in all directions
What is Pascal’s flask?
This simple machine requires both air pressure and gravity to move water up a tube.
What is a siphon?
The four essential forces at play in flight.
What are Thrust, Gravity (weight), Drag, and Lift?
The temperature measurement system that is used by scientists studying the theoretical temperature of absolute zero.
What is Kelvin?
This phenomenon occurs as a result of both the sun’s uneven heating of the earth and the planet’s rotation.
What are global trade winds?
Water molecules bond to each other more strongly than to other surfaces causing this phenomenon.
What is surface tension?
The process of shining light through a gas and noting how it is refracted to determine the elements present in the gas.
What is spectrometry?
The record for highest skydive.
What is the upper reaches of the stratosphere at 41,000km?