Climate
This is the word for short-term, day-to-day conditions in a given geographic area.
What is the weather?
This is one of the eight characteristics used to describe and classify minerals.
Acceptable answers: luster, cleavage & fracture, hardness, streak, density, color, crystal structure, or special properties
This is the word that describes the event of the moon's shadow passing across the Earth's surface.
What is an eclipse?
This is the name for a scientist who studies and predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
This is the word we use to describe the long-term impact of human activity on global atmspheric conditions.
What is climate change?
One way scientists can assess long-term changes in global climate is by evaluating gases trapped in ice core samples from glaciers. Name one other way scientists can learn about prehistoric climates?
Examining the fossil record
This is the layer of the earth where the raw material for igneous rock is found.
What is the mantle?
Name one phase of the moon.
Acceptable answers:
New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, or waning crescent
The name for the process of liquid water changing into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
This means when you preserve a natural resource by using less of it.
What is Conservation?
This kind of emissions causes its namesake effect on Earth's climate by trapping heat inside the Earth's atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gases?
This is the word we use to describe the process of rocks or sediment being moved from their original locations.
What is erosion?
This is why we experience seasonal changes in weather.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis?
This is one of the four types of extreme weather events we learned about in this chapter.
Acceptable answers:
1. Hurricanes
2. Tornadoes
3. Winter storms
4. Thunderstorms
This is one way we can reduce air pollution.
A correct answer will identify a strategy for eliminating or reducing the use of anything the burns fossil fuels to run, like choosing to ride a bike instead of drive, or use a bus instead of drive an individual car, or increasing use of solar panels or wind turbines.
Name two factors that can affect a region's climate.
Acceptable answers:
1. Latitude/position on Earth/Distance from Equator
2. Amount of annual precipitation
3. Proximity to a large body of water
4. Topography/mountains/plains
This is one of the five defining characteristics of a mineral.
Acceptable answers:
Naturally occurring, crystal structure, solid, definite chemical composition, formed by inorganic processes
This is the force that keeps the moon in orbit around the earth.
What is gravity?
This is the name for the type of air mass that forms over a warm body of water.
What is maritime tropical?
This is the most scary consequence that could result from climate change.
What is extinction? (I would also accept human extinction)
These are the three methods of heat transfer.
What are convection, conduction, and radiation?
This is the name for an anomaly in rock layers caused by penetration from magma that cooled and hardened within the crust without ever reaching Earth's surface.
What is igneous intrusion?
This is the name of a small space rock that burns brightly as it enters Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
What is the name of the global wind pattern that causes weather patterns in the continental United States to move from west to east?
What is the Prevailing Westerlies?
These are the four layers of soil in order from top to bottom
Correct Answer:
1. Litter
2. Topsoil
3. Subsoil
4. Bedrock