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?
What is the hydrosphere
What is all the liquid water on Earth
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?
In the bathtub or a low level room with no windows
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 gain energy over the ocean what happens to the hurricanes energy when it reaches land
What is the hurricane loses energy
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.
This is the variable that is purposely changed in a science experiment
What is the independent Variable
What are three examples of severe weather that Florida experiences
What are thunder storms, hurricanes and tornadoes
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.
These are three spheres that are interacting during a volcanic eruption
What is Geosphere, Atmosphere and hydrosphere
Which pattern of wind flow is most likely to occur during a hot summer day 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.