Terms to know
What is weather?
Temperature and precipitation in the short term.
precipitation
What causes wind?
Differences in air pressure.
Tectonic plates colliding or sliding past each other cause:
Earth quakes
What are the parts of the water cycle?
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, infiltration.
What is a front?
A large air mass of the same temperature
Heat transferred between to objects that are touching is called:
Conduction
What is needed to make metamorphic rocks like coal?
intense heat and pressure
What happens at a subduction zone and what can they cause
One plate slides under another. cause volcanoes and earthquakes or tsunamis in the ocean.
What are the layers of Earth in order?
Crust, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core, inner core.
What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
weathering is the breakdown of rock. Erosion is the transport of material away.
What is a spinning column of air called?
cyclone
The islands of Hawaii were made by:
Underwater volcanoes.
What kind of front forms when a warm front and cold front meet and get stuck somewhere? What kind of weather do we see?
Stationary front. Many days of cloudy wet weather.
What are the layers of the atmosphere?
Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere
What is a precipitation and temperature pattern that stays the same over a long time?
Climate
Abrasion, frost wedging, and animal activity (burrowing) are examples of:
Physical weathering
What causes tectonic plates to move?
Convection currents in the mantle.
We did not not get as much rain from the hurricane here in the the mountains as somewhere like Asheville where the land is flatter. What is this effect called?
Rain shadow effect
What is ground water stored in and what is the top of it called?
Aquifers and water table.
What are the three types of plate boundaries and how do they move?
Convergent collide, divergent spread apart, transform slide past in opposite directions
What are the two periodic weather patterns in the pacific ocean that cause either warm and dry weather or cold and wet weather for the southern US?
El Nino & La Nina
What creates Earth's magnetic field?
The motion of the outer core around the inner core.
What happens to marine life as the ocean becomes more acidic?
shelled creatures and coral die because they cannot get what they need to make their shells.
What is the rock cycle and how do types of rocks change?
Each rock can change into different forms. igneous by melting. Sedimentary by being broken into sediment and getting glued back together. Metamorphic by going through lots of heat and pressure.