Water Cycle
On Mount Everest the temperature decreases as the altitude increases. The summit of this mountain is in which atmospheric layer?
What is Troposphere?
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
How do the conditions for a tornado differ from the conditions for a hurricane?
What is Tornadoes generally form over land, while hurricanes form over bodies of water.
What is the most likely reason why sand at the beach heats up faster than the ocean water?
What is The sand absorbs the heat faster than the water?
Where is the hydrosphere located?
What is above the lithosphere?
What is the most abundant gas in the Atmosphere
What is Nitrogen?
An air mass in a valley travels up a mountainside. What causes the movement of this air?
Who is warming by solar energy re-radiated from the ground.
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Where should you go if a tornado warning occur and you are at home?
What is the basement or the lowest level?
Warm air rises because it
What is, it has a lower density than cool air.
Plants can break large rocks into tiny pieces. How is it possible for plants to be able to mechanically weather rocks by breaking them into smaller pieces?
What are the roots of the plant grow into the cracks of the rock forcing them to break.
Which Layer will you find space shuttle flying?
What is Thermosphere?
Hurricanes are large, powerful storms that form as they travel over warm ocean waters. What do oceans add to make hurricanes so strong?
What are heat and moisture?
What composes about 71% of Earth's outermost layer?
What are oceanic crust?
Darryl learns that freezing temperatures may help cause weathering. Explains how freezing temperatures MOST likely cause weathering?
What is freezing water in the cracks of rocks
This layer is the coldest.
What is Mesosphere?
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
Water with energy that come on land behind a Hurricane.
What is Storm Surge?
Hurricanes form over water and lose wind speed when they move over land. What does this pattern BEST illustrate?
What is oceans transfer more energy to the atmosphere than land does.
Scientists estimate that the temperature of Earth’s core is as high as 6000°C. Which BEST explains how heat from the core reaches the surface?
What is hot materials in the mantle circulate the same way warm air rises and cool air sinks in a heated room.
Which explanation describes why seafloor spreading occurs?
What is Lithospheric plates move apart under the ocean floor.
Why do the areas along the "Ring of Fire" experience many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes?
What is The numerous tectonic plate boundaries.
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
List the layers in which the temperature increases as elevation increases.
What are Stratosphere and Thermosphere?
An area of high pressure will most likely result in which type of weather?
What is clear weather?
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes
What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?
What causes wind in the atmosphere and how does wind move? Be sure to include the terms high pressure and low pressure in your description.
What is unequal heating of the earth, and the spinning of the earth. Wind blow from high pressure to low pressure.
Climate is generally affected by plate tectonics because plate motions
What are the changes in the ocean currents.
Which pattern of wind flow is most likely to occur during a hot summer season in a coastal location?
A. From land to sea, toward areas of lower air pressure.
B. From sea to land, toward areas of lower air pressure.
C. From land to sea, toward areas of higher air pressure.
D. From sea to land, toward areas of higher air pressure.
B. From sea to land, toward areas of lower air pressure.