These clouds are low, gray, and often mean precipitation.
What are stratus clouds?
100
This is the wearing down of rock surfaces by wind, water, or plants.
What is weathering?
100
This can take the form of rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
What is precipitation?
200
This environment has rivers, lakes, streams, or marshy areas. It also has bulrushes, cattails, ducks, and frogs.
What is a wetland?
200
These animals are warm-blooded and drink their mother's milk.
What are mammals?
200
These clouds are high, wispy, and mean a change of weather is coming in 24-48 hours.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
These are the three layers of soil.
What is topsoil, subsoil, and bedrock?
200
When a heat source changes the water to vapor.
What is evaporation?
300
This environment has has little rainfall, and a hot and dry climate. It is located at a low elevation. Some animals that live here are lizards, tortoise, and jackrabbits.
What is a desert?
300
This vertebrate group is cold-blooded, and breathe through gills when young but grow lungs when they become adults.
What are amphibians?
300
This weather instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
Fossils are found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
300
When water vapor cools and condenses into water droplets, then forms clouds.
What is condensation?
400
This type of tree found in a forest has pine cones, and both the flat scales and needles have a waxy coating to help the trees keep in moisture during the cold season and their shape and size have less surface area during Utah’s cold and dry winters.
What is a coniferous tree?
400
Name two differences of arachnids (spiders) and insects.
What are spiders have two segment body, insects have three segment body, or spiders have eight legs, insects have six legs, or spiders have no antennae and insects have antennae?
400
These are conditions for a certain place for the current time, while the other are conditions for a large area over a long period of time.
What is the difference between weather and climate?
400
This type of rock is with or without observable crystals that are not in layers or with or without air holes or glass like.
What is igneous?
400
When the water collects in one place. It can take the form of lakes, rivers, oceans, or groundwater.
What is accumulation?
500
This type of forest has leaves that change colors in autumn before leaves fall. Oak, hickory, maple, sweet gum, aspen, and poplars are types of trees found here.
What is a deciduous forest?
500
Of these four types of fish, one is not found in Utah: Bonneville Cutthroat Trout, Walleye, Red Snapper, Yellow Perch
What is the Red Snapper?
500
This weather instrument measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
These are marble, gneiss, and schist.
What are metamorphic rocks (commonly found in Utah)?