Meteorology
Weathering & Erosion
Scientific Method
Water Cycle
Rock Cycle
100
Type of cloud associated with rain.
What is nimbus?
100
Weathering
What is the breaking down of materials such as rocks?
100
Independent variable
What is the variable that is intentionally changed in an experiment?
100
Evaporation
What is the process called for moving water to the air and clouds?
100
Sedimentary rock.
What is the type of rock that forms when sediments are pressed and cemented together?
200
Rotation
What is the movement called that the Earth makes every 24 hours which results in night and day?
200
Water freezes and expands, causing rocks to break into pieces.
What is mechanical weathering?
200
Conduct an experiment
What is the best way to prove or disprove a hypothesis?
200
The sun.
What provides the energy for the water cycle?
200
Formed from lava and magma?
What is igneous rock?
300
Saturated
What is air that has 100 percent relative humidity?
300
An example is carbonic acid breaking down granite.
What is chemical weathering?
300
An educated guess or proposed answer to a question.
What is a hypothesis?
300
Precipitation
What is the method called for returning water from the clouds to the ocean?
300
Color or streak.
What is a test for identifying minerals that is not very reliable?
400
Summer Solstice.
What is the name of the date when the Northern Hemisphere is pointed toward the sun?
400
Plant roots growing into rocks causing them to crack apart
What is mechanical weathering?
400
Information that you obtain through your senses.
What is an observation?
400
Condensation
What is the process where water vapor changes to a liquid state?
400
Classifies minerals from one (softest) to ten (hardest)
What is Moh's scale?
500
satellites
What is a tool used to detect precipitation and storms?
500
The carrying away of sediments, particles of rock, and soil.
What is erosion?
500
dependent variable
What is the variable that changes in response to the independent variable?
500
Transpiration
What is the movement of water from plants to the atmosphere?
500
New rock that is formed from an existing rock that undergoes heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
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