Clouds
What are clouds?
Masses of water vapor
What is heat?
Energy
What is convection?
the movement of heat through a fluid (gas and liquid)
What is a line of latitude?
the horizontal lines on a globe or map
What is the smallest country in the world? It only takes up two square miles
the Vatican City
When a stratus cloud hangs out really close to the ground what is it called?
Fog
In the demo from class... as heat moves which ball of fat did/will/should fall first if placed on a metal bar with a heat source on one end
The ball closest to the heat source
Hot air wants to travel where?
Up
The earth has a top and a bottom half, what are the two halves called?
northern and southern hemisphere
How fast was the first person to be convicted of speeding going?
8 mph
As the sun heats the earth, liquid water does what on the surface to become a cloud in the future...
evaporate
If I hold an Ice Cube how/why does it melt?
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When hot air travels up what does cold air do?
travels down and takes its place
On average where are the hottest daily temperatures on earth
at the equator
What is the only letter that does not appear in a states name?
Q
Name two types of clouds
stratus, cirrus, cumulus, cumulonimbus...etc
Give me an example of when you have seen Conduction - the moving of heat through objects - (not convection) in your everyday life
cooking...
Describe a time in your life you have seen and or felt convection... (a weather event cannot be your answer)
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Why does the angle that the sun hits the earth play a part in how it is heated?
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On earth it rains water... on Neptune what is the rain made out of?
Diamond
When thinking about the cloud in a bottle...explain what pressure has to do with a cloud (squeezing or not squeezing)
When more pressure less clouds, when little pressure more clouds
Explain how heat moves through objects
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Explain how convection has anything to do with a storm
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Explain why the equator has the hottest daily temperatures
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What animals milk is pink?
A hippopotamus