Weather and Climate
The layers of air above and around Earth
Atmosphere
The warming of water enough to change from a liquid to a gas
Evaporation
Wind, Water, or Ice moving sediments across land
Erosion
A gaseous fossil fuel produced from organic matter that is used to heat homes and cook
Natural Gas
A form of energy from moving electrons
The general weather for a location over a very long period of time
Climate
Large Bodies of salt water covering nearly 3/4 of Earth
Oceans
A large pile of deposited sand moved by wind
Sand Dune
A liquid made from organic matter, heat, pressure, and millions of years
Oil (or petroleum)
A device that opens or closes a gap in a circuit
Switch
The daily environmental changes in a specific location or time period
Weather
Water that falls to earth as rain, sleet, snow, or hail
Precipitation
Wind, water, ice, breaking apart sediments
Made from plant or animal material
Organic Matter
A closed pathway through which electrons are conducted
A Circuit
The levels of various factors in the atmosphere such as temperature, air pressure, wind, and humidity
Conditions
What is the sun's role in the water cycle?
The sun heats up bodies of water and turns the water into water vapor... It drives evaporation.
A feature of Earth
(Canyons and Deltas are examples of this)
Landforms
Explain how coal is formed
Coal is formed when dead plant matter decays into peat and is converted into coal by the heat and pressure of deep burial over millions of years
The flow of electricity around a circuit
Current
The force or weight of the surrounding air on everything in and around it
Air Pressure
The cooling of water vapor enough to return to a liquid state
Condensation
Where Earth materials are deposited when a river enters an ocean
Delta
The process of applying mechanical energy to a soil mass so as to rearrange the particles and making it dense through the expulsion of air from the voids between the soil grains (Hint: this is part of the formation of sedimentary rock)
Compaction
Describe a parallel circuit in detail
Mr. Kimmel or Mrs. Jones will tell you if you got that correct :)