Describing Weather
The Water Cycle
The Weather
Landforms
Resources
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This scientific tool measures the temperature of the air.
What is thermometer.
100
The process of changing from a liquid into a gas.
What is evaporation?
100
Scientific name for the air that surrounds the earth.
What is atmosphere?
100
The highest landform.
What is mountain?
100
A material on earth that is necessary or useful to people.
What is natural resource?
200
This scientific tool is used to measure air pressure.
What is barometer?
200
The process of changing from a gas into a liquid.
What is condensation?
200
The pressing down force of the air on earth.
What is air pressure?
200
The low land between hills or mountains.
What is valley?
200
The two types of natural resources.
What are renewable and nonrenewable?
300
This scientific tool measures how much precipitation has fallen.
What is rain gauge?
300
Water that falls to earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
300
Top layer of the atmosphere where northern lights occur.
What is thermosphere?
300
Name for the lakes surrounding Michigan.
What is the Great Lakes?
300
This occurs when harmful materials get into water, air, or land.
What is pollution?
400
This scientific tool measures how fast the air is moving.
What is anemometer?
400
The 3 scientific steps of the reoccurring water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
400
Atmospheric layer where very strong winds called jet streams occur.
What is stratosphere?
400
River that empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
400
The most important natural resource.
What is water?
500
The 4 things scientists use to describe weather.
What are temperature, air pressure, precipitation, and wind.
500
The three forms of matter.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
500
The 4 layers of the atmosphere.
What are thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, and troposphere?
500
The 6 types of water features on earth.
What are rivers, lakes, oceans, coasts, bays, and glaciers?
500
Nonrenewable resource that includes coal, oil, and natural gas.
What is fossil fuel?
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