What is the characteristic of the eye of the hurricane?
A. The strongest winds and densest clouds
B. Thunderstorms
C. Light clouds and precipitation
D. Calm Weather and Blue Sky
D. Calm weather and blue sky
100
The earth is mostly covered by this
What is water?
100
The wearing away and moving of weathered rock and soil
What is erosion?
100
The processes of the water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, run-off, transpiration, and percolation
200
What is the axis of a planet?
the imaginary line that goes through the center of a planet from the North Pole to the South Pole
200
Very severe storms can form where a ______ has a large continuous supply of warm air to lift and condense.
A. Cold Front
B. Warm Air Mass
C. Hurricanes
D. Heat Waves
A. Cold Front
200
The number of continents on earth
What is 7.
200
The breaking down of rocks on the Earth's surface
What is weathering?
200
This starts the water cycle process.
What is sun?
300
Earth makes one complete rotation from west to east every ____ hours
What is 24 hours?
300
____ are often associated with very severe thunderstorms called supercells.
A. Tornadoes
B. Sea Breezes
C. Hurricanes
D. Heat Waves
A. Tornadoes
300
The outer layer of earth where landforms are found
What is crust
300
The breaking apart of rocks caused by a change in their chemical makeup.
What is chemical weathering?
300
This is the release of water vapor from plants.
What is transpiration?
400
Earth makes one _______ , or orbit around the Sun.
What is revolution?
400
What are three names of earthquakes?
What is convergent, divergent, transform.
400
The melted rock in the crust and mantle
What is magma?
400
The breaking apart of rocks without changing their mineral composition
What is Mechanical weathering?
400
Liquid that falls from the atmosphere to Earth
What is precipitation?
500
The brightest object in the night sky is the _________