Energy
The ability to do work.
What is work?
Summer, spring, fall, and winter
What are the 4 seasons?
Our day-to-day patterns of temperature, wind, precipitation, etc.
What is the weather?
States of matter
What is a solid, liquid, or gas?
The ability to make molecules slide around each other to make a fluid from a solid by adding heat.
What is melting?
Meteorologists
What are scientists who study weather?
The earth’s tilt
Why causes the seasons?
Air Pressure
What is the weight of the air pressing down on the earth?
H₂O
What is the chemical formula for water?
The complete separation of molecules from each other from a liquid into a gas.
What is evaporation?
The main transfer of heat from the sun to the earth
What is radiation?
The day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere where we receive the most light in one day; this occurs when our orbit around the sun points the northern hemisphere most towards the sun on June 21st
What is the summer solstice?
It is the collection of day-to-day weather data over a period of at least 30 years.
What is the climate?
The smallest part of everything in the world.
What is an atom?
The ability of molecules to stick to each other to turn a liquid into a solid by removing heat.
What is freezing?
The transfer of heat between two objects that are touching.
What is conduction?
The day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere where we receive the least amount of light in one day; this occurs when our orbit around the sun points the northern hemisphere farthest away from the sun on December 21st.
What is the winter solstice?
The curving motion of our wind around the Earth as it rotates on its axis.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Where two or more atoms are joined together.
What is a molecule?
The ability to turn a gas into a liquid by removing heat.
What is condensation?
Areas of warm air rising from the surface of the earth.
What are convection currents?
When the Southern Hemisphere is experiencing winter the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing _______.
Summer
It is the uneven heating of our earth.
What is the #1 reason for our weather? or
Why do we have weather?
The cycle of processes by which water goes through states of matter.
What is the Water Cycle?
Solid to liquid to gas
What happens when ice turns into water vapor?