This climate zone has moderate temperatures and varying precipitation.
What is the temperate climate zone?
100
Something that has mass and volume. It cannot be create or destroyed.
What is matter?
100
A substance that has a definite volume but does not have a definite shape.
What is a liquid?
200
The weight of the atmosphere on Earth's surface.
What is air pressure?
200
An area that has similar average temperatures and precipitation throughout.
What is a climate zone?
200
The climate zone is generally covered in ice and snow year-round.
What is the polar climate zone?
200
The amount of matter in something.
What is mass?
200
A substance that does not have a definite shape or volume.
What is a gas?
300
A large body of air that has the same temperature and moisture properties throughout.
What is an air mass?
300
The imaginary line that divides Earth into its northern and southern hemispheres, or halves.
What is the equator?
300
This climate zone is near the equator and there is sun directly overhead nearly all year.
What is the tropical climate zone?
300
The amount of space something takes up.
What is volume?
300
A substance with a definite shape and volume.
What is a solid?
400
The boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
400
The measure of how far north or south a place is from the equator.
What is latitude?
400
These are found in warm, wet climates. They receive nearly the same amount of sunlight year-round.
What is the tropical rain forest?
400
The measure of energy of motion of the particles in matter.
What is temperature?
400
As a solid takes in energy, its temperature ____________.
What is increases?
500
This shows information about temperature, fronts, precipitation and more.
What is a weather map?
500
A warm ocean current.
What is the Gulf Stream?
500
This type of environment can be covered by fresh or salt water. They occur in places where the ground cannot soak in all the precipitation.
What is a swamp?
500
This is found by dividing the mass of an object by its volume.
What is density?
500
Matter has physical properties that can be observed without changing the type of matter. Matter can also change in ways that do not affect the type of matter. These changes are called ____________.