Weather
Name a weather instrument that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
Cooling lava or molten material.
What is igneous?
Describes one living thing.
What is an oorganism?
Plankton (Name two).
What is zooplankton and phytoplankton?
The top of a transverse wave.
Clouds and rain indicate what type of pressure?
What is low pressure?
Great heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
An organisms job or role?
What is niche?
Flat area of the ocean floor.
What is the abyssal plain?
The bottom of a wave.
What is the trough?
An anemometer measures this.
What is wind speed?
Drops it.
What is deposition?
All of one type of organism.
What is a population?
The deepest part of the ocean.
What is a trench?
In a sound wave, where the molecules are close together.
What is a compression?
A cold air mass is over Richmond, Virginia. The temperature is 52ºF and it's windy. The air mass is moving slowly toward Hampton. Currently the temperature is 79ºF in Hampton. What do you think will happen to the temperature in Hampton?
Increase - Decrease - No change.
What is decrease?
Takes it.
What is erosion?
Has the most energy in an ecosystem? (Not the sun)
What are producers? (Plants)
Part of the ocean floor with the most life.
What is the continental shelf.
Sound traves best in a gas. T or F
What is false?
A hygrometer measures this.
What is humidity or water vapor?
Breaks it.
What is weathering?
Made up of living and non-living things.
What is an ecosystem?
Name the part of the ocean floor you are walking on when you walk into the water at Buckroe Beach.
What is the continental shelf?
Light does not need a medium to travel through like sound. T or F
What is true?