Weather
Occurs when warm water from the eastern Pacific Ocean moves to the western Pacific Ocean.
What is La Nina?
The coolest months every year in North Carolina are January, February, and March.
What is climate?
Used to measure wind speed
What is an anemometer?
Transfers heat quickly from one material to another
What is a conductor?
A cold remedy tablet that breaks down when added to water causing gas bubbles to form is a sign of this.....................
What is a chemical change?
Gives power to the water that moves through the water cycle.
What is the sun?
The energy a moving object has because of its motion
What is kinetic energy?
Condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
A meteorologist uses this to know how much it has rained over a period of time.
What is a rain gauge?
A wind that blows from the sea/ocean to the land during the day time.
What is a sea breeze?
Sidewalk heating up during the summer.
What is radiation?
Contains ingredients that can be easily separated.
What is a mixture?
Sun's rays cause the moisture in plants to evaporate
What is transpiration?
A batter at home plate waiting to hit the baseball when the pitcher throws it is ____________ energy
What is potential energy?
The barometer on a sunny day starts to decrease in pressure indicating this type of weather is on the way.
What is cloudy and precipitation?
Brings warm water from the South, making temperatures warmer during the winter and bringing more precipitation to North Carolina.
What is the Gulf Stream?
Moves air masses from west to east across the United States of America.
What is the jet stream?
Heat transferred through a liquid or gas
What is convection?
The total after a student combines 100 ounces of water with 125 ounces of sugar.
What is 225?
On a sunny day a pair of wet jeans are hanging outside on the clothes line. They dry through the process of ...................
What is evaporation?
If you melt 50 grams of ice in 150 grams of water, how much water will you end up with.
What is 200 grams?
A low pressure system moving into North Carolina will bring____________ and _____________,
What is rain and wind?
What is winter?
The jet stream causes these winds to move from the west to the east.
What are prevailing westerlies?
Water in a pot moves in a cycle when heated causing hot water to rise and cold water to sink. This causes the water to boil through.........
What is convection?
A 10 ounce rubber ball is placed outside and it warms up. The weight of the ball after it warms up would be........
What is 10 ounces?
Highest clouds in the atmosphere that indicate a windy day
What are Cirrus Clouds?
if you hit a golf ball, a cotton ball, and a baseball with an equal amount of force, the _______________ will accelerate the most.
What is the cotton ball?
Creates warmer air, warmer temps, and milder winters in North Carolina
What is the Gulf Stream?
Warm steady breezes that blow toward the equator
What are trade winds?
Weather patterns move from
What is west to east?
Rubber, plastic, cloth, and wood
What are insulators?
What is physical change?
Nimbus clouds indicate a _______________ is coming.
What is a storm?
When you change ice to water the energy in the ice does this____________________
What is increases?