Hydrologic Cycle
What is the process called when water changes from liquid to gas?
What is evaporation?
What is thermal energy?
What is the energy that comes from the temperature of matter?
What happens to air pressure as elevation increases?
What is air pressure decreases?
What causes tides?
What is the gravitational pull of the moon?
What is matter?
What is anything that has mass and takes up space?
How does thermal energy affect the state of water in the hydrologic cycle?
What is it causes water to change states (e.g., from liquid to gas)?
How does thermal energy contribute to climate patterns?
What is it influences weather and temperature distributions globally?
Name one property that differs in the atmosphere at different elevations.
What is temperature or humidity?
Describe what an eclipse is.
What is when one celestial body moves into the shadow of another?
How do plants use light energy?
What is they use it for photosynthesis?
What term describes the journey of water from the ground to the atmosphere and back?
What is the hydrologic cycle?
Describe one way energy is transferred through the atmosphere.
What is conduction, convection, or radiation?
How does elevation affect climate?
What is higher elevations generally have cooler temperatures?
How do the positions of the Earth, moon, and sun affect the phases of the moon?
What is the positions determine how much of the moon is illuminated?
What is an example of energy transformation in living organisms?
What is food energy being converted into kinetic energy for movement?
Explain how porosity affects water movement through soil.
What is more porous soil allows water to flow more easily?
How does the transfer of energy affect ocean currents?
What is it helps regulate climate and weather patterns?
Why do weather patterns vary at different altitudes?
What is due to changes in temperature and pressure?
What is the difference between a solar and lunar eclipse?
What is a solar eclipse is when the moon covers the sun; a lunar eclipse is when the Earth covers the moon?
Describe the role of abiotic factors in a biome.
What is they influence the survival of organisms, such as climate and soil type?
Explain the role of thermal energy in the hydrologic cycle.
What is it drives evaporation and condensation processes?
How does energy transfer during state changes of water influence global temperatures?
What is it can moderate temperatures by absorbing and releasing heat?
Explain how different atmospheric layers impact weather.
What is each layer has different temperature and moisture characteristics affecting weather?
Explain how the motion of the Earth affects seasonal changes.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis and its orbit around the sun create seasons?
Explain how energy can be transformed but never lost.
What is energy changes forms (e.g., from potential to kinetic) but the total amount remains constant?