Weather
What does a thermometer measure?
A. Air pressure
B. Wind direction
C. Temperature
What is Temperature?
Northern Hemisphere
the half of the Earth that lies north of the equator
How much of Earth is water?
10%
35%
100%
70%
What is 70%?
An imaginary center line around which Earth rotates.
What is the Axis?
Without this, the Earth would not experience seasons.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
Name of the cycle that shows the continuous movement of water within the Earth and atmosphere.
What is water cycle?
Condensation
a process whereby a gas changes into a liquid
Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air.
True
false
What is true?
The Earth's ___________ gives us day and night.
What is rotation.
When part of the Earth is tilted closer to the sun, that part of the world experiences this season.
What is summer?
What is the term for any form of water that falls from the clouds?
A. Precipitation
B. Evaporation
C. Condensation
What is Precipitation?
Precipitation
All liquid and solid water particles that fall from clouds and reach the ground
Which movement of Earth causes day and night?
Rotation
Revolution
What is rotation?
it takes 365 1/4 days for the Earth to make one of these around the sun.
What is an Orbit or Revolution
When part of the Earth is tilted away from the sun, that part of the world experiences this season.
What is winter?
What is the name of the process that transfers heat by moving air?
conduction
convection
precipitation
transpiration
What is convection?
Humidity
What is the amount of water vapor in the air?
Warm air is less dense than cool air.
True
False
What is true?
The natural Satellite that orbits the earth.
What is the Moon
During winter, that part of the Earth receives this type of sunlight.
What is indirect rays of sunlight?
Difference between weather and climate?
Weather refers to short term conditions while climate is long term conditions when weather of a specific region changes over a long period of time.
Hydrosphere
all the waters found on, under, and above the surface of the Earth
What does the prefix bio mean in biosphere?
Bio means life
Earth is the ________ planet from the Sun.
What is the 3rd.
If the northern hemisphere is experiencing winter, the southern hemisphere is experiencing this season.
What is summer?