Water, Water Everywhere
Glaciers and Wind, Oh My!
Atmosphere, Baby
Solar Energy and Winds
Weather Patterns and Climate
100
This is water that is underground in soil and within cracks in rocks
What is groundwater
100
This type of glacier is found in high mountain valleys
What is a valley glacier
100
The instrument used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer
100
Heat is circulated through the troposphere by this process
What is convection
100
This is a large tropical cyclone with winds of at least 119 kilometers per hour
What is a hurricane
200
This process is when liquid changes into a gas
What is evaporation
200
What are 2 ways through which glaciers erode rock?
What is abrasion and plucking
200
These 2 gases together make up about 99% of Earth's atmosphere
What are nitrogen and oxygen
200
Sea breezes occur during this time (day or night)
What is day
200
Precipitation is generally higher near this as opposed to the poles
What is the equator
300
There are 4 main ways ocean water moves: surface current, density current, upwelling, and longshore drift. The cause of surface currents is wind. Name 2 effects of surface currents.
What is warm water flowing away from the equator and cold water flowing away from polar regions
300
This feature of glacial deposition are long teardrop-shaped mounds of till
What are drumlins
300
This layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere
300
process where certain gases in the atmosphere radiate absorbed energy back to Earth's surface, warming the lower atmosphere, is called this
What is the greenhouse effect
300
This process refers to an increase in the worldwide temperature of the lower atmosphere
What is global warming
400
This is a dense, visible mass of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
What is a cloud
400
This feature formed by glacial deposition is a flat plain made of particles of rock that were deposited from glacial streams
What is an outwash plain
400
These are the 4 layers of the atmosphere
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere
400
These cause winds
What are differences in air pressure
400
This classification of air mass forms over water transpiration (it's not tropical . . . )
What is maritime
500
The five most common types of precipitation are . . .
What are rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, and hail.
500
How does a glacier create landforms?
What is it melts and deposits loads of sediment
500
This is a region of charged particles that overlaps lower thermosphere
What is the ionosphere
500
curving effect that Earth's rotation has on global winds is called this
What is the coriolis effect
500
Name 2 weather conditions which are associated with an anticyclone
What are clear skies, very little precipitation, and generally calm conditions (need 2 of the 3)
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