AIR AND ATMOSPHERE
The quantity of a substance within a certain volume
What is concentration?
What is electrolysis?
Type of rock formed from molten rock
What is igneous rock?
A large body of air which has the same pressure, temperature, and humidity
What is an air mass?
A point at which position is measured-ex. a book sitting on a table a few feet from you is not moving, but relative to the moon, it is constantly moving
What is a reference point?
The moisture content of air
What is humidity?
A molecule that has slight positive and negative charges due to an imbalance in electron sharing example: water
What is a polar molecule?
The three types of rock seen in the earth's crust
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks?
The boundary between two air masses
What is a weather front?
A quantity that DOES NOT have directional information-Example: 15 Feet
What is a scalar quantity?
What is the greenhouse effect?
The process by which water is exchanged between various water sources
What is the hydrologic cycle?
The boundary between two sections of rock that can move relative to each other, which can cause earthquakes
What is a fault?
The two steps in lightning bolt formation
What is the stepped leader and the return stroke?
This is occurring when velocity changes
What is acceleration?
Energy that is transferred as a consequence of temperature differences
What is heat?
The cooling of a gas that happens when a gas expands
What is adiabatic cooling?
The point where an earthquake begins
What is the focus?
The way in which the earth's rotation bends wind pathways, sea currents, and objects that fly
What is the coriolis effect?
Newton's first law of Motion-the tendency of an object to resist change in velocity (stay in motion or stay at rest)
What is inertia?
Narrow bands of winds that circle the earth blowing from west to east
What are jet streams?
Small particles upon which water vapor condenses to form clouds
What are cloud condensation nuclei?
Name 4 main layers of the earth
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, inner core ?
Name three types of weather fronts
What are cold, warm, occluded, and stationary
The two types of friction
What is static and kinetic friction?