Core Concepts
Average weather of a place over many years.
What is climate?
Between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
What are the tropics?
A cyclone that forms over the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a hurricane?
The total amount of length between the start and end point on any path.
What is distance?
Siddhartha was born in this country.
What is India?
Water that falls to Earth as rain, sleet, snow or hail.
What is precipitation?
Areas between the high and low latitudes.
What are temperate zones?
A swirling funnel that can reach speeds of 300 mph.
What is a tornado?
Unlike distance, displacement also includes the _____________ of the path.
What is direction?
Siddhartha was raised in this religion.
What is Hinduism?
Measure of how hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
Areas North of the Arctic Circle or South of the Antarctic Circle.
What are polar zones?
An intense rainstorm with strong winds that forms over oceans in the tropics.
What is a tropical cyclone?
Name for the length & direction of a straight line between the start and end points.
What is displacement?
Siddhartha was expected to take one of these two roles.
What are a great leader or an enlightened holy man?
Condition of the air and sky at a certain time.
What is weather?
The movement of water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back.
What is the water cycle?
Area of rising air near the Equator.
What is the intertropical convergence zone?
How quickly an object changes position.
What is speed?
Siddhartha became one of these, which is a person who gives up worldly desires to seek truth.
What is an ascetic?
Height above sea level.
What is altitude?
Process in which water changes from liquid to gas.
What is evaporation?
Underground molten rock.
What is magma?
The metric unit for distance or displacement would be this.
What is a meter?
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Siddhartha was shocked to see these four evidences of suffering in the world.
What are a sick man, a poor man, an old man and a dead man?