Water Cycle
Climate Zones
Weathering and Erosion
Hydrosphere
Air Masses
100
The cause of water vapor forming into clouds?
What is condensation.
100
What is a Climate Zone?
What are zones of the Earth that have been grouped together by average temperature and rainfall?
100
What is erosion?
What is the process of rock displacement by wind, water, or other natural agents?
100
Most of the Earth's hydrosphere is _______?
What is the ocean?
100
What causes air masses to move in different directions?
What is Earth's rotation?
200
The different forms of water are_____?
What is ice, water, and water vapor.
200
What are the main four climate zones of the Earth?
What are the Temperate, Sub-Tropical, Tropical, and Polar climate zones?
200
What is weathering?
What is the breaking down of rocks, soil, and minerals as well as artificial materials through contact with the Earth's Atmosphere, biota, and waters.
200
How much percent of Earth's is salty?(ocean water)
What is 97%?
200
What are the scientific names of the 4 main types of air masses?(Tropical and Polar)
What is Continental Polar, Continental Tropical, Tropical Maritime, and Polar Maritime?
300
What is Collection?
What is precipitation collected by bodies of water.
300
What climate zone is Florida located in?
What is the Sub-Tropics?
300
What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
Weathering is the breaking down of rocks and erosion is the displacement of rocks.
300
Where is most of Earth's freshwater stored?
What are icecaps and glaciers?
300
A warm front occurs when... A. Warm air rises up against cold air. B. Cold air rises up against warm air. C. Warm air pushes directly toward cold air. D. Cold air pushes directly toward warm air.
What is (A) Warm air rises up against cold air?
400
What is sublimation? A. water turning into water vapor because of the sun's heat. B. when water droplets combine together to form a cloud . C. when ice and snow turn into water vapor without melting. D. water from clouds coming down back to the surface as hail, sleet, or snow.
What is C (when ice and snow turn into water vapor without melting)
400
What is the difference between a coniferous and deciduous forest?
What is, Coniferous forests have cones and don’t lose their leaves unlike deciduous forests which do lose their leaves?
400
Water can weather rock by: A. eroding soil B. by freezing and melting
What is freezing and melting?
400
What body of water is unable to enter the atmosphere directly?
What are aquifers?
400
A cold front occurs when... A. Cold air rises up against warm air. B. Warm air rises up against cold air. C. Warm air pushes directly toward cold air. D. Cold air pushes directly toward warm air.
What is (D) Cold air pushes directly toward warm air?
500
What kind of cloud is usually located 10,000 feet above the Earths atmosphere?
What is the cirrus cloud.
500
Describe the tropical, temperate, and polar climate zones.
A tropical climate zone is a place where it is hot and humid and it rains very often. A temperate climate zones are zones that are considered average in weather and don't have any extremes. A polar climate zone is an area where it is usually less than 10 degrees Celsius and there is not much rainfall.
500
Nonliving, solid material that are formed in nature and made of crystals are?
What are minerals?
500
About how many miles does the ocean consist of? A-321 cubic miles. B-976 cubic miles. C-549 cubic miles. D-765 cubic miles.
What is (A) 321 cubic miles
500
What is an air mass and what are it's properties?
An air mass is a large (usually thousands of miles across) volume of air that has horizontally uniform properties in terms of temperature, and to a lesser extent humidity. (doesn't have to be exact answer)
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