Matter
Form of water that falls from a cloud to the earth: rain, sleet, snow, hail.
What is precipitation?
Push or pull applied to an object.
What is force?
The system made up of the heart, blood, veins, and arteries which move blood through your body.
What is the circulatory system?
A feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing.
What are characteristics?
A large region of the atmosphere where the air has similar properties like temperature, humidity, air pressure.
What is air mass?
Solid precipitation that forms when rain is falling from the cloud and temperatures are freezing.
What is sleet?
When an object is moving and wants to keep moving or when an object is at rest and wants to stay at rest.
What is inertia?
System made of the nose, trachea, and lungs that helps the body use the air you breath.
What is the respiratory system?
Study of how genes control the characteristics of plants and animals.
What is genetics?
Low level clouds that spread out and look like a blanket covering the sky. Overcast weather, sometimes precipitation. Fog is a stratus cloud at ground level.
What are stratus clouds?
Precipitation that is formed into balls or irregular clumps of ice.
What is hail?
When an object is not moving or in motion.
What is rest?
System made up of bones that forms the framework to support the body and to protect the internal organs.
What is the skeletal system?
Characteristics that come from the parents.
What are inherited traits?
High level clouds that look thin and wispy like feathers. Made of ice crystals.
What are cirrus clouds?
The loss of water through a plant’s leaves.
What is transpiration?
The way we can describe how an object is changing speed and direction.
What is velocity?
System made of muscles that help you move.
What is the muscular system?
Passage of traits from parent to child.
What is heredity?
Winds that occur between 30' and 60' in both hemispheres. They blow from west to east, and towards the poles.
What are prevailing westerlies?
The continuous movement of water between Earth’s surface and the air, changing from liquid to gas to solid.
What is the water cycle?
Force that pushes against an object causing it to slow down and stop.
What is friction?
Made up of many cells. Many cells that perform different functions.
What is multicellular?
The way an organism acts or responds.
What is behavior?
A strong wind found 6-9 miles above the Earth's surface. It can reach speeds of 50-200 mph. Steer the movement of surface air masses and weather systems.
What is the jet stream?