The result of an object's mass and velocity.
Mass x Velocity = This force.
What is Momentum?
100
An imaginary line that runs horizontally above or below the equator.
What is Latitude?
100
Low to mid level clouds that are white and puffy with a flat bottom; usually do not bring precipitation.
What are Cumulus Clouds?
100
A belt of winds around Earth moving from high pressure zones toward the low pressure at the equator.
What are Trade Winds?
100
The path of energy in food from one organism to another; how energy goes from producers to consumers to decomposers.
What is a Food Chain?
200
The action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
What is Motion?
200
Major movement of water in the oceans.
What are Water Currents?
200
Cumulus clouds that stack on top of one another form these clouds also known as "Thunderheads."
What are Cumulonimbus Clouds?
200
Winds that blow from the west to the east that are constantly changing and bringing stormy weather; these are the winds that bring weather systems across the United States.
What are Prevailing Westerlies?
200
The over-lapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a Food Web?
300
Distance traveled divided by the time of travel.
What is Distance?
300
Warm water surface current in the Atlantic Ocean that moves from the south of Florida up the eastern seaboard and then across the Atlantic towards Africa.
What is the Gulf Stream Current?
300
Low level clouds that are gray and blanket-like that usually cover the sky and bring rain showers.
What are Stratus Clouds?
300
These are the winds that blow from east to west around the north and south poles.
What are Polar Easterlies?
300
A pyramid shaped structure that shows the flow of energy in an ecosystem.
What is a Energy Pyramid?
400
A measurement of how long a particular activity takes from beginning to end without interruption.
What is Time?
400
Oscillation of water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean on the west coast of South America. El Nino refers to the warmer waters in the Pacific near the equator. La Nina refers to colder waters in the same area.
What is El Nino/ La Nina?
400
A line on a weather map connecting places with equal air pressure.
What is an Isobar?
400
A large region of the atmosphere where the air has similar properties throughout with the same temperature and humidity.
What is a Air Mass?
400
Any type of relationship between organisms in an ecosystem.
What is Symbiosis?
500
A diagram showing the relation between typically two variable quantities resting on a x-axis and y-axis.
What is a Graph?
500
The highest type of cloud in the troposphere made up of ice crystals; they look thin and wispy like a feather; do not ever bring precipitation.
What are Cirrus Clouds?
500
A dry area on a mountain-side facing away from the direction of the wind. The mountains block the passage of rain, casting a "Shadow" of dryness behind them.
What is Rain-Shadow Effect?
500
A front that happens when a warm air mass is caught between two cold air masses and is pushed upwards.
What is an Occluded Front?
500
The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.