One is what can be measured or counted, the other is described, not measured.
What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative observations?
At 50km in altitude, this atmosphere layer will make your blood boil.
What is the Mesosphere?
This type of heat transfer can only occur when one object makes direct contact with another.
What is radiation?
As altitude increases, this decreases.
What is air pressure?
These are the 4 main types of precipitation.
What are rain, snow, hail, and sleet?
A measurable, replicable prediction.
What is a hypothesis?
90% of all weather occurs in this atmospheric layer.
What is the troposphere?
This type of heat transfer can only occur in air or water.
What is convection?
What is an illustration of a land breeze?
This severe weather is rated on the Fujita Scale.
What are tornadoes?
This step of the scientific method is intended to communicate results of an experiment.
What is the conclusion?
These are the five layers of the atmosphere (in order).
What are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.
The sun heating up a car is an example of this type of heat transfer.
What is radiation?
Warm air rising bringing cool air up from the valley.
What is a valley breeze?
Friction within a cloud causes a negative charge that disperses to the ground to create this weather phenomenon.
What is lightning?
Conclusions or deductions based on observations.
What are inferences?
When the norther hemishpere is titled towards the Sun it is experiencing this season.
What is Summer?
This diagram is an illustration of this effect.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
One is caused by warm air sinking down, the other is caused by cool air rising.
What is the difference between high and low pressure?
This is the proccess that causes precipitation.
What is the cooling and condensation of warm water vapor?
The truck was distracted by the loose dog, ran the stop sign, and crashed into the car.
What is an example of an inference?
The only factor that creates the Earth's seasons.
What is Earth's Tilt?
The following scenarior inlcudes these types of heat transfers: A metal pot is placed on a hot stove burner. The pot is filled with water. The pot and water become hot and eventually start to boil. Chris places his hands a few inches above the hot water and has to remove them because they are getting too hot.
What are conduction, convection, and radiation?
These three types of fronts are pictured in this map.
What is a warm front, cold front, and occluded front?
This has a measurement unit of g/m3 and utilizes a hygrometer to measure it.
What is humidity?