Water Cycle
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
On Mount Everest the temperature decreases as the altitude increases. The summit (top) 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?
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
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.
Water takes longer to __________ and ___________ than land, which is why land breezes occur at night and sea breezes occur during the day.
What is heat and cool or cool and heat?
What is the hydrosphere?
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
What is the most abundant gas in the Atmosphere
What is Nitrogen?
Side of the mountain that receives the most wind and precipitation.
Who is the windward side?
Daily Double
Daily Double
Where should you go if a tornado warning occurs?
What is the basement, the lowest level of building, nearest shelter?
Warm air rises because...
What is air molecules expand and cause warm air to be less dense?
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?
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
Which Layer will you find space shuttle flying?
What is Thermosphere or Exosphere?
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water.
What is a hurricane?
Hurricanes are large, powerful storms that form as they travel over oceans. Hurricanes gather the most strength when they travel over _______ ocean waters.
What is warm?
71% of Earth's surface is composed of?
What is oceans??
Darryl learns that freezing temperatures may help cause weathering. Explain how freezing temperatures MOST likely cause weathering in rocks?
What is freezing water in the cracks of rocks causing them to expand due to frost/ice wedging?
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
The _________ is the coldest layer of the atmosphere because......
What is Mesosphere and absence of ozone?
Temperature measures the _________ amount of kinetic energy within the air at a given time. Thermal energy measures the _________ amount of kinetic energy.
What is average and total?
Water with energy that comes onto land behind a Hurricane and causes a sudden and sometimes deadly increase in water levels.
What is Storm Surge?
Why do hurricanes lose strength as they travel over land?
What is land does not provide as much as energy to hurricanes as warm ocean waters do?
Which method of heat transfer is responsible for the phase of the rock cycle that takes place inside of Earth's extremely hot mantle and involves rising and falling magma?
What is convection/convection currents?
Which type of tectonic boundary causes seafloor spreading occurs?
What is divergent boundary?
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 of the atmosphere in order. All 6 layers
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, ionosphere, exosphere (thermosphere)?
An area of high pressure will most likely result in which type of weather?
What is clear weather?
Hurricane season starts in __________ and ends in ________.
What is 1 June and 30 November?
Winds in a hurricane blow in a _____________ direction.
What is counter-clockwise?
Weather patterns in the United States generally move from __________ to __________ across the country.
Hint: direction - north, south, east, west
What is west to east?
Meteorologists use weather maps and other models to plot and predict the movement of high and low pressure systems that lead to changes in ________.
What is weather?
A sea breeze occurs when wind blows from the _________ to the _________.
What is from the sea to the land?