Weather And Climate
What are the four spheres?
Biosphere, Hydrosphere, Geosphere, and Atmosphere
How long does it take for big deserts to form?
Millions of years.
What element in the periodic table is He?
Helium
System
what is a group of interacting parts, with each piece influencing the behavior of the whole
What direction does thermal energy flow?
From a hotter temperature to a cooler temperature
Hoodoo
what is a rock formed unusually
Atomic mass is the mass of?
what is a single atom
Are fingernails are made of the same material of what Animal and it's body part
What is the horn of a Rhino?
Proportional
what is describes two quantities that are related by a simple ratio
A substance thermal energy changes when its state changes as its energy is being transferred through...
Melting, evaporation, condensation, and freezing
The original continent was called
What is Pangea?
Scientists use patterns in the periodic table to ...?
What is predict what will happen when two elements mix?
Before 1923, what was the city in Turkey, Istanbul called?
Constantinople
Greenhouse Effect
The warming of the troposphere by energy trapped by greenhouse gases
Where is temperature for weather usually measured?
weather stations
The processes that happened in the past, right now, and in the future is called...
Uniformitarianism
What is the periodic table of elements?
A table that lists all of the known elements and groups them into columns by property.
How long does it take for the Earth to orbit the sun?
365
Criteria
The requirements that must be met for an engineering solution to be successful
The plate left of the Caribbean Plate
What is the Cocos plate?
What is the unit of measurement scientists use for atomic mass?
what is Daltons (Da)
How many bones are in the human body?
206
Latitude
A unit in degrees that describes a position on Earth relative to the equator