Weather Wonders
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The largest and deepest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The outermost solid shell of the Earth.
What is the crust?
The planet known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
The process of asking questions and testing hypotheses about the natural world.
What is the scientific method?
A rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground.
What is a tornado?
These underwater mountains are formed by volcanic activity.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
The semi-liquid layer beneath the crust that tectonic plates float on.
What is the mantle?
Earth’s natural satellite.
What is the Moon?
A scientist who studies the atmosphere and weather patterns.
What is a meteorologist?
The type of cloud that often signals fair weather.
What is a cumulus cloud?
These streams of water move through the oceans and are caused by wind, Earth's rotation, and differences in water temperature.
What are ocean currents?
The layer made primarily of iron and nickel, found at Earth’s center.
What is the core?
The second planet from the Sun, often called Earth's "sister planet" because of its similar size and composition.
What is Venus?
The term for breaking down rocks into smaller pieces through natural processes.
What is weathering?
The scale used to measure the strength of hurricanes.
What is the Saffir-Simpson scale?
The process by which sunlight supports life in ocean ecosystems.
What is photosynthesis?
The type of rock that forms when magma or lava cools and solidifies.
What is igneous rock?
The name of our galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
The type of plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
This weather phenomenon occurs when cool ocean water interacts with the atmosphere, often causing drought in the Americas.
What is La Niña?
This famous deep-sea trench is the deepest point in the world’s oceans.
What is the Mariana Trench?
This boundary marks the transition between the crust and the mantle.
What is the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or Moho?
The term for planets outside our solar system.
What are exoplanets?
The theory that explains the movement of continents over geological time.
What is plate tectonics?