The Water Cycle and Spheres
The changing of a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
The pushing force of the atmosphere.
What is barometric pressure.
The frozen precipitation that forms in layers.
What is hail?
The number of years weather conditions must be collected to be considered climate.
What is 30 years?
The process of laying down materials such as rocks and soil.
What is deposition?
Water that flows off the land into streams, rivers, lakes, and the ocean.
What is Runoff.
The type of pressure associated with warm air rising.
The air temperature in Celcius and Fahrenheit that snow would turn to rain.
What is 0 C and 32 F?
The measure of how far a place is from the equator.
What is Latitude?
The force causing erosion.
This energy source starts the water cycle.
What is the Sun.
What is air temperature?
What is sleet?
What is the polar, temperate, and tropical zone.
Two causes of water erosion.
What are rivers, rain, waves, glaciers?
What sphere covers three quarters of the earth?
What is the Hydrosphere?
The four things that interact to make weather.
What is barometric pressure, temperature, wind, water?
The two landforms that impact clouds.
What are mountains and bodies of water?
These travel through the ocean and can make a climate warmer or cooler.
What are ocean currents?
What are grasses and plants?
The number of kilometers above and below sea level is the biosphere.
What is Low Pressure.
Different clouds are determined by these two things.
The major greenhouse gas trapping the sun's heat and warming the Earth.
Carbon Dioxide
Two examples of wind erosion.
What are sand dunes and farms?