Vocabulary
What is a substance made of only one type of atom?
What is an element?
True or False: Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is true?
Which state of matter has a definite shape and volume?
What is a solid?
Which part of Earth contains most of its water?
What is the hydrosphere
What layer of the atmosphere is where weather occurs?
What is the troposphere?
What is the change of state from a liquid to a gas?
What is vaporization?
True or False: Liquids have a fixed shape.
What is false?
Which state of matter has no definite shape but definite volume?
What is a liquid?
What landform has low elevation and low relief?
What is a plain?
What front is non-moving and where warm and cold air meet?
What is a stationary front?
What do we call the ability to do work or cause change?
What is energy?
True or False: An atom has a positively charged center called the center.
What is False?
Which state of matter has neither definite shape nor volume?
What is a gas?
What layer of Earth is solid iron and nickel?
What is the inner core?
What air mass forms in the tropics and has low pressure?
What is tropical?
What is the percentage of water vapor in the air compared to the maximum it can hold?
What is relative humidity?
True or False: The mantle is Earth’s thinnest layer.
WHat is false
What kind of energy is energy in motion?
What is kinetic energy?
What landform is formed by sediment buildup?
What is a delta?
What process turns water vapor into liquid water?
What is condensation?
What is the change in state directly from a solid to a gas?
What is sublimation?
True or False: The atmosphere is the thin envelope of gases that surrounds Earth.
What is true?
What is the process of a gas changing to a liquid?
What is condensation?
Name one sphere that contains weather.
What is the atmosphere
What air mass is cold and dry?
What is continental polar?