Energy II
What is the law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be changed from one form to another?
Law of Conservation of Energy
What is the continuous movement of water between the atmosphere, the land, the oceans, and living things?
Water Cycle
What is an increase in the proportion of a population living in urban areas rather than in rural areas?
Urbanization
What is the movement of air caused by differences in air pressure?
Wind
What is a large body of air throughout which temperature and moisture content are similar?
Air Mass
1. Meat Eater 2. Plant Eater 3. Everything Eater
1. Carnivore
2. Herbivore
3. Omnivore
What is the process of energy changing from one form into another?
Energy Transformation
What is the change of state from a liquid to a gas?
Evaporation
What is the removal of trees and other vegetation from an area?
Deforestation
What is the curving of the path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to Earth’s rotation?
Coriolis Effect
What is the weather condition in an area over a long period of time?
Climate
What is an organism that can make its own food by using energy from its surroundings?
Producer/ Autotroph
Use of mechanical devices, such as pumps, fans, and photovoltaic panels, to actively collect, convert, and distribute solar energy for heating or electricity
Active Solar Energy
What is the change of state from a solid directly to a gas?
Sublimation
A renewable power source that generates electricity by using the kinetic energy of moving water to turn turbines.
Hydroelectric Energy
What is the movement of air over Earth’s surface in patterns that are worldwide?
Global Wind
What is the boundary between air masses of different densities and usually different temperatures?
Front
What is a diagram that shows the feeding relationship between organisms in an ecosystem?
Food web
K=m(v)2 / 2 is the formula for
Kinetic Energy
What is the change of state from a gas to a liquid?
Condensation
What is the size and shape of the land surface features of a region, including its relief?
Topography
What is a narrow band of strong winds that blow in the upper troposphere?
Jet Sream
What is the short-term state of the atmosphere including temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind, and visibility?
Weather
1. Ecological relationship in which two or more organisms depend on the same limited resource?
2. Environmental factor that prevents an organism or population from reaching its full potential of size or activity?
1. Cooperation
2. Competition
What is the transfer of energy as heat through direct touch?
Conduction
What are all the bodies of fresh water, salt water, ice, and snow that are found above the ground?
Surface Water
What is a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater?
Aquifer
What is the movement of air over short distances?
Local Wind
What is the distance north or south of the equator expressed in degrees?
Latitude
What is the pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organisms?
Food Chain
What is a material that reduces or prevents the transfer of energy?
Insulator
What is any form of water that falls to Earth’s surface from a cloud?
Precipitation
What is a stream that flows into a lake or into a larger stream?
Tributary
What is the movement of ocean water that follows a regular pattern?
Ocean Current
Geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the surface of the Earth. (imaginary lines that divide the Earth.)
Longitude
What is the height of an object above sea level?
Elevation
What is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object?
Temperature
What is the water that is beneath Earth’s surface?
Groundwater
What is the path that a stream follows?
Channel
What is a stream like movement of ocean water far below the surface?
Deep Current
Equatorial ocean region with by low pressure, light, unpredictable winds, and sudden, intense squalls (sudden, sharp increase in wind speed). Generally between 5°N and 5°S of the Equator
Doldrums
What is a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem’s loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystem’s food chain?
Energy Pyramid
What is the transfer of heat energy as electromagnetic waves?
Radiation
What is the upper surface of underground water?
Water Table
What is the area of land that is drained by a river system?
Watershed
What is any movement of matter that results from differences in density; may be vertical, circular, or cyclical?
Convection current
Subtropical regions known for calm winds, sunny skies and little precipitation. located at about 30 degrees north and south of the equator.
Horse Latitudes
1. Group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area
2. All of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other
1. Population
2. Community
What is a material that transfers energy easily?
Conductor
What 2 factors drive the water cycle?
Energy from the sun and gravity
What is the boundary between drainage areas that have streams that flow in opposite directions?
Divide
What is a horizontal movement of ocean water that is caused by wind and that occurs at or near the ocean’s surface?
Surface current
Prevailing winds in the middle latitudes that blow from west to east. Key component of atmospheric circulation, flowing poleward and eastward from subtropical high-pressure belts.
Prevailing westerlies
What is a pattern of meteorological symbols that represents the weather at a particular observing station and that is recorded on a weather map?
Station Model
What is the formula for mechanical energy?
ME=PE + KE
What is the process by which plants release water vapor into the air through stomata?
Transpiration
What is a gray cloud that has a flat, uniform base and that commonly forms at very low altitudes?
Stratus
What is the movement of deep, cold, and nutrient-rich water to the surface?
Upwelling
A localized, cool wind blowing from the ocean toward the land during the day, caused by the faster heating of land compared to water.
Sea Breeze
Sustainable design approach that harnesses the sun's energy for heating and cooling through building orientation, material selection, and natural heat transfer rather than mechanical systems.
Passive solar energy