This is when water turns from a water falls to the sky as rain, sleet, hail, snow, or freezing rain.
What is precipitation?
100
This describes how much water is in the air. If it is high, the conditions outside will feel sticky. It is mesured with a hygrometer.
What is humidity?
100
This is how the climate is in ALL deserts.
What is dry? Some deserts are hot and some are cold. They are all dry!!!
100
This planet is located between Earth and Jupiter.
What is Mars?
100
This is the type of rocks formed from molten rock.
What are igneous rocks?
200
This is when a water changes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation
200
This is the type of solid precipitation that would fall if the outside temperature was 72 degrees F.
What is hail?
200
This is what latitude is and how it affects climate.
What is distance away from the equator a place is. Places that are farther from the equator are cold. Places close to the equator are hot.
200
This is the reason the sun appears larger than any other star.
What is because it is closer?
200
An example of this is waves moving the sand from one beach to another.
What is erosion?
300
This is when water changes from a gas to a liquid. It is what forms clouds.
What is condensation?
300
This is the type of weather you will have if the pressure outside is high?
What is good or fair weather? No Rain!
300
This is what elevation is and how it affects climate.
What is the distance above or below sea level a place is. The higher the elevation, the colder the climate is.
300
This is the amount of time it takes for the moon to complete one full cycle (like full moon to full moon)
What is one month?
300
This is the type of rocks formed from heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
400
These are where most of the water on Earth is found. They are an important part of the water cycle.
What are oceans?
400
This is the type of liquid precipitation that would fall if the outside temperature was 45 degrees F.
What is rain?
400
This is third factor that affects climate besides latitude and elevation.
What is the nearness (proximity) to large bodies of water?
400
This is ONE difference between the inner and outer planets?
Answers will vary.
400
This is the breaking down of rocks.
What is weathering?
500
This is the liquid water that forms on the outside or your glass of soda.
What is condensation?
500
This is the type of solid precipitation that would fall if it was solid in the cloud, and solid while falling and the outside temperature was 29 degrees F.
What is snow?
500
This is the type of climate that Florida has.
a. Hot and Dry
b. Hot and Wet
c. Cold and Dry
d. Cold and Wet?
What is hot and wet?
500
This is the length of time it takes the Earth to revolve around the sun?
What is one year (365 days)?
500
These types of rocks are formed by pieces of other rocks and fossils?