Water Cycle
The name for water that falls from a cloud to the ground due to gravity
What is precipitation?
A resource that cannot be replenished within a human lifetime
what is a non-renewable resource?
lines that run east to west and measure distance from the equator
What is latitude?
What is...
recycling?
picking up trash outside?
other idea?
One of the major causes of hurricanes
What is warm ocean temperatures and tropical storms?
The percent of Earth's water that is in the oceans and therefore not fresh water we can use
What is 97%?
millions of years plus heat and pressure
What is fossil fuel formation?
The daily temperature and precipitation conditions of an area
What is weather?
One effect human population increase has on animals
What is extinction, habitat loss, and/or endangerment?
The ring of fire or other plate boundaries
What is the place where volcanoes/earthquakes form?
the process that causes water vapor and water droplets to gather on a window.
What is condensation?
The location where minerals such as copper are found
What are tectonic plate boundaries?
The pattern of precipitation and temperature in an area over many years
What is climate?
Used to create a renewable source of energy using the wind.
What is a wind turbine?
The best way to mitigate potential injuries from a tornado
What is early warning systems so that people can seek shelter?
A collection of water underground
What is an aquifer?
How fossil fuels are distributed around Earth
What is unevenly?
OR
What is depending on what was there in ancient times?
The thing that helps regulate heat distribution across the globe
What are ocean currents?
A limitation to your design during the engineering design process
What is a constraint?
The event that has to happen for a tsunami to occur
What is an underwater volcanic eruption?
OR
What is an underwater earthquake?
OR
What is a landslide?
The H20 state change during Respiration?
What is liquid to gas?
The process of marine life dying and being buried by sediments, where heat and pressure work together to turn it into a non-renewable resource.
What is oil and natural gas formation?
The process of wind being curved off of its straight path due to the motion of the Earth
what is the Coriolis effect?
A way an 8th grader can reduce their ecological footprint
What is ... (answers will vary. correct responses will be left to the judges discretion)
This is the natural disaster that can be MOST accurately predicted
What is a hurricane?