Clouds/Weather
What is a hurricane?
A storm that forms over water with an eye that causes heavy wind and rain
Low pressure days bring this kind of weather
What is lousy, rainy weather
Geologists classify rocks into 3 major groups
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
Salinity
The saltiness of water
Sea Mounts or sea ridge
What is an underwater mountain?
Name 4 types of clouds
What is cumulus, stratus, cumulonimbus, and cirrus
The weather forecast shows that there will be high pressure today, what kind of weather will it be?
What is happy weather that is sunny and dry
The type of rock that forms from magma or lava cooling
What is igneous rock
The main cause of the tide
What is the moon.
How many times does the hide tide or low tide occur in 24 hours?
What is twice
What type of cloud is wispy and feathery
What is cirrus
Feeling like the air is weighing down on you, to measure air pressure use me
What is a barometer
This is how metamorphic rocks are created.
What is extreme heat and pressure
Wave length
What is the distance between the crests of waves?
What order the ocean zones in from shallowest to deepest?
Sunlight Zone
Twilight Zone
Midnight Zone
What type of cloud appears as a blanket covering the sky and lets you know rain is coming?
What is Stratus
The difference between climate and weather.
Climate is the average weather in a particular location over a long period of time. Weather is the day to day changes in temperature, precipitation, and atmosphere.
Igneous rock transform to sediment by processes called ___________ & ____________
What is weathering and erosion
What mainly drives currents?
Wind
What ocean zone is least likely to have lots of sea animals living there? Why?
Midnight zone: Colder, higher pressure, darker
These are the four types of precipitation
What is snow, rain, hail, and sleet?
You would not be able to go outside because of the amount of snow from this storm
What is a blizzard
These types of rocks can become metamorphic rocks
What is igneous, sedimentary and other metamorphic rocks
What are the parts of a wave?
Crest and trough
Name a bay, ocean, river, and lake in Virginia.
Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach (Atlantic Ocean), James River, Lake Anna. Many other answers.