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What are our three major climate zones?
tropical, temperate, and polar.
What is our home galaxy called?
Milky Way galaxy
Name the 4 steps in the water cycle.
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff.
What type of weather can you expect when the air pressure drops rapidly, the temperatures are warm, and there is high humidity.
What temperatures must it be for snow to fall?
below 32 degrees Fahrenheit/ 0 degrees Celsius
Which climate zone has the most consistent weather?
Tropical
What is made up of many stars, dust, and gas?
galaxy
What role does the ocean play in the water cycle?
It provides or stores most of the water found on Earth.
Low pressure systems bring what type of weather.
Stormy, cloudy, rainy
Which type of cloud is associated with thunderstorms?
Cumulonimbus
Which climate zone has the most extreme weather conditions?
Polar
What am I describing?
It is made up of ice, dust, rock, and gas. It doesn't have any moons. It orbits the sun.
comet
Where does the energy come from that allows the water cycle to occur?
Sun
Higher air pressure, cooler temperatures, and little humidity is equivalent to stormy or fair weather?
Fair weather
What type of precipitation will most likely fall at high elevations? (top of a mountain)
snow
Which of the following environments will most likely have the most precipitation over the course of a year?
desert, rainforest, grassland, swamp?
rainforest
How is the composition of outer planets and inner planets different?
Outer planets are gas giants.
Inner planets are rocky and smaller.
During which step of the water cycle does water (liquid) change to water vapor (gas)?
Evaporation
What five major factors determine the weather?
Temperature, humidity, air pressure, clouds and wind
This type of precipitation forms when snow travels through a warm air layer, melts, then travels through into a freezing layer before reaching the ground.
Snow, rain, hail, or sleet?
Sleet
In a mountain environment during winter time, higher elevations will have cooler temperatures or warmer temperatures compared to lower elevation?
cooler temperatures
What is the order of the planets?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
During which step of the water cycle does water vapor (gas) change to a liquid (gas)?
Condensation
When winds blow from the north, what kind of temperatures can you expect in Florida?
Cooler temperatures
This type of precipitation starts as snow, melts, becomes liquid, then high winds blow it back up into the clouds, refreezes and comes down as a solid chunk of ice
Hail