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The way in which the rotation of the earth bends the path of winds, sea currents, and objects that fly through different latitudes.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The evaporation of water from plants.
What is Transpiration?
These are the five sections into which the earth is generally separated.
The three main factors that affect earth's weather.
What are: thermal energy, uneven distribution of energy, and water vapor in the atmosphere?
What is a warm front?
The cooling of a gas that happens when the gas expands with no way of getting more energy.
What is Adiabatic Cooling?
The kind of water you will likely have if some water is taken at random from the earth's hydrosphere.
What is saltwater?
These are studied in order to learn more about the mantle and the core.
What are seismic waves?
"Insolation" stands for this.
What is Incoming solar radiation?
This is approximately how long a thunderstorm will last if it is only one cell.
Rock formed when chemical reactions cement sediments together, hardening them.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
The kind of water a lake will contain if it has no outlets.
What is saltwater?
The magnetic field of the earth is caused by this.
What is a large amount of electrical flow in the core?
The Northern Hemispere's summer is during aphelion or perihelion?
What is aphelion?
In less than a day, dark cumulonimbus clouds form and unleash a thunderstorm that lasts only a few hours. Once it clears, would you expect cooler or warmer temperatures?
What is cooler temperatures?
The point at which the earth is farthest from the sun and the point at which the earth is closest to the sun.
What is Aphelion (farthest) and Perihelion (closest)?
Their beginnings are due to snow in a mountain that never completely melts in summer.
What are Glaciers?
This would happen if the earth did not have a magnetic field.
What is cosmic rays would from the sun would hit the earth and kill all life on the planet.
Winds are caused by these.
What are temperature differences?
Thunder is a result of this.
What is superheated air traveling out from the lightning bolt in waves?
A substance that does not conduct electricity very well.
What is an Insulator?
The oceans do not have enough of this for the earth to be billions of years old.
What is salt?
Name the four kinds of mountains.
This type of cloud is necessary for tornado formation.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
The difference between sheet lightning and a lightning bolt.
Sheet lightning is cloud-to-cloud lightning and a lightning bolt is cloud-to-ground lightning.