Sugar Maple Trees
The process of collecting sap from maple trees.
What is Tapping?
The area on Earth that gets the most concentration of Sunlight and Heat.
What is the Equator?
The Earth's ability to reflect sun's light.
What is Albedo?
The circulation of water through the hydrosphere on Earth's surface to the atmosphere, and back again (from land to atmosphere, and back again).
What is the water cycle?
The rise in global average temperature near Earth's surface.
What is global warming?
The phrase maple sugar producers say "good luck," similar to "break a leg."
What is "May your sap run strong and sweet"?
The transference of energy between a heat source and an object without them touching.
What is Radiation?
The characteristics that influences an object's Albedo.
What is color, type, and texture of surfaces?
The stage of matter that has the least amount of thermal energy and molecule movement.
What is Solid?
The changes in the climate that cause an impact that changes the climate further.
Ex: Glaciers melting and exposing dark surfaces underneath that causes more absorption of heat
What are feedback loops?
A measurement of a location's position relative (near or far) to the equator.
What is Latitude?
The degree angle at which the Sun's rays hit the north and south poles.
What is 30 degrees?
The area on Earth with the highest percentage of Albedo (greater light reflection).
What is Polar Ice Caps?
The process that changes liquid water into water vapor.
What is Evaporation?
The reason maple trees have been shown to have migrated north.
What is maple trees prefer latitudes with cooler temperatures?
Places where maple trees are primarily found.
What is latitudes that experience all four seasons: fall, winter, spring, and summer?
The season the northern hemisphere is in when the North Pole is tilted TOWARDS the Sun.
What is Summer?
The result of glaciers melting, uncovering dark surfaces underneath.
What is Earth's temperature will continue to rise?
The location of the mixture of gases, dust, water vapor, and other molecules above Earth's crust.
What is atmosphere?
The term that describes the occurrence of when the sun never fully sinks below the horizon, resulting in almost 24 hours of daylight.
The season where pressure in maple trees decreases, causing the trees to draw in water through their roots.
What is late fall and winter?
The three climates that Earth experiences in relation to its tilt and its position with the Sun.
What is polar climate, temperate climate, and tropical climate?
What is land, forests, oceans and cities?
The processes involved in the water cycle.
What is Evaporation, Condensation, and Precipitation?
The four main Earth systems.
What is hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere?