Vocab
The systematic study of natural events and conditions is known as what
What is Science?
What causes a hot air balloon to rise?
What is the flames inside the hot air balloon?
When liquid changes slowly to a gas, this process is called?
What is Evaporation?
What is a Quantitative observation?
What is an observation that Does use numbers
What do we call the stage in the water cycle where liquid water is heated by the sun and changes into water vapor?
What is evaporation?
What is an observation that does Not use numbers?
What is a Qualitative Observation?
Is there More Air Pressure at the top of a mountain or at the bottom?
What is there is more Air Pressure at the bottom?
Clouds form when water vapor _________________.
What is Condenses
What is the force exerted by the weight of air above a particular point on the Earth's surface called?
What is Air Pressure
What is the process called when water vapor in the air cools and turns back into liquid water, forming clouds?
What is condensation?
Define Accuracy
What is how close a measurement is to the actual or known value?
What happens to air pressure as you go further up into the Earth's atmosphere?
What is air pressure drops the further up into the atmosphere that you travel?
Snow and hail are example of_________.
What is precipitation?
What is a measure of how much mass is contained in a given volume called?
What is Density
What is the process called where warm air rises and cool air sinks, creating a circulation pattern?
What is convection?
This study is false, pretending to be science, what is it?
What is Pseudoscience?
What is the relationship between altitude and Air Pressure?
What is the higher the Altitude the less Air Pressure and the lower the altitude the more air pressure?
Where does water vapor in the atmosphere originally come from?
What are lakes, rivers, and oceans?
Define Convection
What is the movement of matter due to differences in density; the transfer of energy due to the movement of matter?
What is the movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure called?
What is Wind?
What is information gathered through observation or experimentation called?
What is Empirical Evidence?
What are the 2 major gases in our atmosphere?
What are Nitrogen and Oxygen?
What is the term used when water evaporates from the leaves of plants?
What is transpiration?
The curving of the path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to Earth’s rotation is know as what?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
What natural phenomenon, often seen in the tropics, is driven by convection and can develop into a powerful storm system?
What is a hurricane?