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Measures Temperature
What is a thermometer
100
Water from lakes, rivers and oceans, through wind and heat from the sun, vapourises and heads upwards.
What is Evaporation
100
Clouds that produce often violent storms
What are cumulonimbus clouds
100
Rain with pollutants in it
What is acid rain
100
Sedimentary, Igneous and ______ are the three stages of the rock cycle
What is metamorphic
200
Measures air pressure
What is a barometer
200
Rains/Hails/Snows. The water gets from the clouds back to the earth.
What is precipitation
200
White puffy clouds
What are cumulous clouds
200
Overpumping a well has an affect on this
What is groundwater
200
All the continents together, one super-continent
What is pangea
300
Measures wind speed
What is anemometer
300
Water vapour/droplets collects as clouds. The droplets get thicker and heavier and the cloud prepares to rain.
What is condensation
300
A stream of fast moving air that is a boundary between warm and cold, arctic air
What is the jet stream
300
Air moving from an area of high pressure to low pressure
What is wind
300
Most abundant element in the universe
What is hydrogen
400
Measures humidity
What is hygrometer
400
Water runs off the land, collecting in rivers, lakes, oceans
What is collection
400
This causes wind due to the of the Earth
What is Coriolis Effect
400
Acid rain increases the rate at which rocks do this
What is weathering
400
The speed of light
What is 186,000 miles per second
500
Measures relative humidity
What is a sling psychrometer
500
is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from leaves but also from stems and flowers
What is transpiration
500
All of the compounds of the Earth that are in a gaseous state make up this
What is atmosphere
500
Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere traps in infared heat
What is the greenhouse effect
500
Distance to the sun
What is 93 million miles
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