Weather
As altitude increases, what happens to air presssure?
Decreases
What do you call the process that physically breaks the rock by cracking or splitting.
Mechanical weathering
What do you call the amount of mass an object has in a certain amount of space
Density
Where you might see a meteor burning across the sky
Mesosphere
What is the first book in the Bible?
Genesis
Name two types of renewable energy
Wind, water, solar
Name the two factors that determine the rate of weathering
Climate and type of rock
Scratching
Where we live and where the weather occurs
Troposphere
What tool do we use to measure air pressure?
Barometer
What do you call a huge bodies of air that have a similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height?
Air mass
What type of mass movement causes a mass of rock and soil suddenly slips down a slope in one large mass (makes what looks like steps in the ground)
Slump
What process makes sedimentary rock become metamorphic rock?
Heat and pressure
Where you might see the Northern Lights
Thermosphere
What do you call the path the Earth takes around the sun?
Orbit
What type of front forms when a fast-moving warm air mass overtake a flower-moving cold air mass
Warm front
What do you call the process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered particles of rock and soil
Erosion
What are the three steps of cementation?
Deposition, compaction, cementation
Where the ozone layer is which protects us from UV
Stratosphere
How long is the Easter season?
50 days
What do you call the release of water vapor from plants?
Transpiration
List the 5 causes of mechanical weathering
Freezing and thawing, release of pressure, plant growth, actions of animals, and abrasion
Naturally occurring, solic, formed by an inorganic process, crystal structure, definite chemical composition
Put the 5 layers of the atmosphere in order.
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
Who is the patron saint of educators, immigrants, and sick children
St. John Neumann