Weather
Clouds/Layers of the Atmosphere
Landforms
Motion&Design
Misc.
100
An imaginary line that runs east and west. They measure distances north or south of the equator
What are lines of latitude?
100
Mid-level puffy clouds. The cute little clouds you may see a dog or rabbit in.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
Wind and weather cause this.
What is weathering?
100
A bar or board resting on a support (fulcrum.)
What is a lever?
100
A grooved wheel with a rope around it.
What is a pulley?
200
Global winds that carry weather over the U.S. traveling from west to east.
What are Westerlies?
200
The atmospheric layer where few molecules are located. One would need an oxygen mask to survive.
What is the mesosphere?
200
Smaller streams or rivers that flow into larger ones.
What are tributaries?
200
Two inclined planes put together to form a narrow cutting edge.
What is a wedge?
200
Stored energy.
What is potential energy?
300
Where air masses meet, but do not mix and rain or storms occur.
What is a front?
300
High level clouds made mostly of ice crystals.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Formed when waves meet gently sloping land and push sand and pebbles onto the land.
What is a beach?
300
A machine with few or no moving parts that makes work easier.
What is a simple machine?
300
Body of air formed over warm water.
What is a warm/moist air mass?
400
Water from rain and melting snow that flows over the Earth's surface.
What is runoff?
400
The atmopsheric layer where clouds are formed also called the zone of weather.
What is the troposphere?
400
A narrow low land carved by a stream, or by erosion from rivers.
What is a valley?
400
An inclined plane wound around a cylinder.
What is a screw?
400
Air flowing from high pressure to low pressure.
What is wind?
500
The state of the atmosphere considering wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, air pressure, and other factors.
What is weather?
500
A cloud belonging to a class characterized by horizontal layering with a uniform base.
What are stratus clouds?
500
Height above sea level.
What is elevation?
500
Energy of Movement.
What is kinetic energy?
500
A part of the ocean near the equator known for its calms.
What are the doldrums?
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