Water Cycle Wonders
What is the process called when water changes from liquid to gas due to heat from the sun?
What is Evaporation?
Which climate zone is near the equator and hot and rainy year-round?
What is Tropical?
What is the name of the heat transfer process where warm fluid rises and cool fluid sinks?
What is convection?
What law says the oldest rock layers are at the bottom?
What is the Law of Superposition?
The Earth's crust is made of moving pieces called ____.
What is tectonic plates?
This process forms clouds as air cools and water vapor turns back to liquid.
What is condensation?
Which zone has moderate temps and distinct seasons?
What is temperate?
What causes warm air to rise and form clouds?
What is it is less dense?
What kind of fossil helps scientists quickly date rock layers?
What is index fossils?
These events happen when plates slide or collide.
What is an Earthquake?
What happens when water droplets in clouds get too heavy?
What is precipitation?
Which zone is cold with low precipitation and tundra landscapes?
What is Polar?
Where does surface water get warmed and rise, causing ocean currents?
What is at the equator?
What’s it called when rock breaks down into smaller pieces?
What is weathering?
Volcanoes are both __ and __ forces.
What is constructive and deconstructive?
What causes clouds and precipitation to form when warm air rises over cooler air?
What is air mass movement?
What effect do warm ocean currents have on nearby land?
What is they warm the air and increase the precipitation?
What type of ocean current moves heat from the equator to the poles?
What is warm ocean currents?
What’s it called when broken rock is moved by wind, water, or ice?
What is erosion?
What was the name of the supercontinent from 300 million years ago?
What is Pangea?
What is the transfer of heat by the movement of fluids (like air and water) in a circular motion called?
What is Convection?
Why are deserts often found near cold ocean currents?
What is cold water cools the air and reduces evaporation?
What causes cool water to sink and create deep ocean currents?
What is it is denser then warm water?
What process drops sediment and builds new land like a sandbar?
What is deposition?
Name two pieces of evidence that support continental drift.
What is matching fossils, similar mountains, coastlines that fit?