Water
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This and That
100
Water covers about this percent of the earth.
What is 70%?
100
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are forms of this.
What is precipitation?
100
This is what we call the constant change in air over a short period of time.
What is weather?
100
A violent tropical storm that forms in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a hurricane?
100
Plant life
What is vegetation?
200
Most of the earth's freshwater is found in these two places.
What is lakes and rivers?
200
The process of the sun's heat turning water into vapor
What is evaporation?
200
This is what we call a pattern of weather events over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
Seasonal winds that bring rain.
What are monsoons?
200
0° Latitude
What is the Equator?
300
This is the process of water constantly moving between the ground and the air.
What is the water cycle?
300
The process where water vapor changes into liquid as the air cools.
What is condensation?
300
These are the low latitudes near the Equator that get direct sun rays year round.
What is the tropics?
300
A violent tropical storm that forms in the Pacific Ocean.
What is a typhoon?
300
The largest and deepest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
400
This is an underground rock layer that water flows through.
What is an aquifer?
400
This is the energy source that drives the water cycle.
What is the sun?
400
Moving streams of water in the oceans that help circulate the sun's heat around the globe.
What are currents?
400
These climates are cold and are located from 60°N to North Pole and 60°S to South Pole.
What are High Latitude Climates?
400
The percent of water on the earth that is in the ocean.
What is 97%?
500
These are the three different forms that water exists in on earth.
What are liquid, frozen, and gas?
500
These are the four oceans on the earth.
What is Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic?
500
Your team must act out a rain shadow.
What is the rain shadow?
500
These climates are where most people on the earth live. They are located from 30°N to 60°N and from 30°S to 60°S.
What are Mid-Latitude Climates
500
The climate zone that Iowa is located in.
What is Humid Continental?
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