Vocabulary
Landforms
Weather and climate
Forces
Heat transfer
100
A __________ is an extended period of time with little to no rainfall
What is drought
100
What forms because of sediment building up where a river ends and meets up with an ocean?
What is delta
100
What is the difference between weather and climate?
What is weather is the condition of the atmosphere at any gien point in time at a specific location. Climate is the average weather over a certain amount of time.
100
What are two examples of forces that act at a distance?
What is gravity, elcetrical, magnetic
100
What type of heat transfer is seen in gases and liquids?
What is convection
200
The ____________ is made up of all the liquid water part of the earth
What is hydrosphere
200
What are the two types of weathering?
What is chemical and physical
200
What two spheres of earth are interacting with each other when a whale swims in the ocean.
What is biosphere and the hydrosphere
200
What two things does gravity depend on
What is the mass of the two objects and the distance between them
200
What type of heat transfer is happening when you burn your hand on a stove?
What is conduction
300
___________ is the process where broken down rocks and sediment are carried away and _________ is where they lay after being carried away.
What is erosion and deposition
300
acid rain breaking down rocks is an example of ___________ weathering
What is chemical
300
Why does land along oceans have more temperate environments?
What is oceans take long to heat and coold and therefore produce a mild land a sea breeze.
300
If a graph shows a straight line for speed what is this saying
What is the speed is constant
300
What do we call narrow bands of hih speed winds?
What is jetstreams
400
A _________ is a push or a pull
What is force
400
What are two types of landforms found in Florida?
What is rivers, lakes, sand dunes
400
unequal heating of the atmosphere causes differences in _________
What is air pressure
400
What force would be used to pusha swing?
What is applied force
400
What layer of the atmosphere protects us from the sun?
What is ozone layer
500
What is the force of gravit acting on a person called?
What is weight
500
What are at least two landforms found on earth?
mountains, plains, plateus
500
What forms over warm water?
What is hurricanes
500
What force is commonly seen in mass movement of land?
What is gravity
500
What are at least two examples of greenhouse gases?
What is carbon dioxide, methane