Water Cycle
Wind
Air
Atmosphere
Energy
100
What are the 3 stages of the water cycle?
What is evaporation, condensation and precipitation?
100
What are 3 types of winds?
What is the prevailing westerlies, the polar easterlies and the trade winds.
100
Name 2 things that run on motors that cause pollution.
What is a car and a factory.
100
What is the first layer of the atmosphere and what occurs there?
What is the troposphere where weather occurs.
100
How are conduction and convection different?
What is conduction happens through touch and convection happens through liquids and gases.
200
What powers the water cycle?
What is the sun.
200
What two breezes are there?
What is the sea breeze and the land breeze.
200
What is the greenhouse effect?
What is radiation trapped in the atomsphere by gases.
200
Which layer blocks meteors?
What is the mesosphere.
200
How do wind mils make energy?
What is a rotator that turns in side the wind mill when the wind blows, making electricity.
300
What are the five types of precipitation?
What is rain, sleet, hail, snow and freezing rain.
300
With what do you measure wind speed?
What is a barometer.
300
How does acid rain form and what does it do to living things?
What is sulfur oxide in the air mixing with water creates acid rain. Acid rain harms or even kills living things.
300
What are the 5 layers of the atmosphere?
What is the troposphere, the stratosphere, the mesosphere, the thermo-sphere and the ionosphere or the exosphere.
300
What are the 3 types of heat radiation?
What is visible light, ultra violet radiation, and infrared radiation.
400
What are two things that condensation needs to occur?
What is a solid surface and cold air.
400
Name 2 places where you can find hardly and wind.
What is the doldrums and the horse latitudes.
400
How are smog and smoke different?
What is smog is on the ground and smoke rises in the sky.
400
Why does the thermo-sphere get so warm?
What is it absorbs ultra violet light better than other layers.
400
What causes 3rd degree burns?
What is convection.
500
SPIN! How do hail and sleet differ? EXTRA SPIN!! Draw how hail forms.
SPIN! Hail forms way up in the sky and sleet freezes near the ground. We will check your EXTRA SPIN!!
500
SPIN! Name as many winds as you can in 10 seconds. YOu must say at least 8 and storm winds count. EXTRA SPIN!! Say 12 winds with no notes.
What is the prevailing westerlies, the polar easterlies, jet streams, tornado, trade winds, global winds, sea breeze, land breeze, doldrums, horse latitudes, hurricane, storm, local winds, windstorm, blizzard, firestorm, dust devil.
500
SPIN! What does London have to measure air pollution? EXTRA SPIN!! What is it's name?
What is the air balloon. EXTRA SPIN!! Air de Paris.
500
SPIN! What two main types of air are in the atmosphere? EXTRA SPIN!! What are 4 other air types in the atmosphere?
What is nitrogen and oxygen. EXTRA SPIN!! Neon, argon, mercury carbon dioxide, sulfur, copper, lithium, ozone, methane, chlorine, titanium, cobalt, lead, magnesium, nickle
500
SPIN! Draw a diagram of convection currents with labels, arrows and a title. EXTRA SPIN!! Draw an example of convection, conduction and radiation.
We will check your SPIN! and EXTRA SPIN!!
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