Seasons
Weather Station
Water Cycle
Atmosphere
Wind and Rainbows
100
When it is winter in Australia, it is this season in Denver.
What is summer
100
Snow, rain, hail, and sleet are called...
What is percipitation
100
What is the process when water heats up and goes from a liquid to a gas called?
What is evaporation
100
True or false? There is more air pressure at high elevations
What is false.
100
Wind swirling in a funnel cloud is called a...
What is a tornado
200
If it is spring in Chile, it is this season in California
What is Fall
200
This type of low cloud stretches out from miles across the sky and means precipitation is likely
What is stratus clouds
200
What is the process when water vapor gas cools and forms into water droplets called?
What is condensation
200
Where would you find the most air pressure? a. in an airplane b. on a mountain c. at the beach d. In Death Valley (below sea level)
What is d.
200
Name the 2 things required to make a rainbow
What is rain and sunlight
300
In the areas near this imaginary line, there are no seasons
What is the equator
300
This type of cloud is puffy and occurs at middle altitudes
What is cumulus clouds
300
When water falls from sky to earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail it is called this.
What is percipitation
300
Why does wearing a jacket keep you warm?
What is it traps air in against your body.
300
Which is not true about rainbows? a. rainbows can be in the shape of a circle b. you can find the end of a rainbow c. rainbows can be upside down d. rainbows can happen at night
What is b. you can find the end of the rainbow
400
These two parts of the Earth never get direct sunlight, so never have hot summers.
What is the North and South poles.
400
This type of cloud occurs at high altitudes and looks wispy like a horses tail
What is cirrus clouds
400
When plants give off water liquid water that goes into the atmosphere as a gas, it is called:
What is transpiration
400
Explain why pressure is less at lower altitudes.
What is there is less air and less atmosphere pressing down on you.
400
Decribe the process by which a rainbow occurs
What is when sunlight hits water droplets it refracts and spilts into its colors.
500
Explain why the northern and southern hemispheres have different seasons
What is the Earth is at a tilt so the different hemispheres get different amounts of direct and indirect sunlight at different times of the year.
500
this type of cloud is huge and anvil shape, and means a that a thunderstorm or tornado is on its way
What is cumulonimbus
500
Describe the journey of a water droplet from a lake through the water cycle cycling through all the steps it would go through before it would return to a lake.
What is it would start as a water droplet in the lake, heat up and evaporate into a gas, cool and condensate into a cloud, and then fall back into the lake as precipitation.
500
Why do peoples ear's pop when they are in an airplane?
What is because the pressure outside of their bodies is different from the pressure inside their bodies
500
Why does wind happen?
What is when air heats up it rises and cold are rushes over to take its place.
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