Water Cycle
The phase change where water turns from a liquid into a gas.
What is Evaporation?
Rock Cycle: What are the three main types of rocks?
What is Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic?
The fundamental difference between weather and climate.
Weather is short-term; climate is long-term patterns.
The layer of atmosphere where most of our weather occur.
What is the Troposphere?
The pieces of Earth's crust that slowly move over the mantle.
What are tectonic plates?
This powers the entire water cycle.
What is the sun?
This process breaks down existing rocks into smaller pieces.
What is weathering (or erosion)?
How does latitude affect an area's climate?
Closer to the equator is warmer; closer to the poles is colder.
This instrument is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
What scientists call liquid, molten rock inside the Earth.
What is magma?
Water vapor cooling and turning back into liquid droplets forms this.
What are clouds?
This type of rock forms from the cooling and hardening of magma or lava.
What is igneous?
Gases like carbon dioxide and methane that trap heat in Earth's atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gases?
This type of severe weather is a rapidly spinning, funnel-shaped cloud.
What is a tornado?
The point on Earth's surface directly above where an earthquake starts.
What is the epicenter?
Any form of water that falls from clouds (rain, snow, sleet, hail).
What is precipitation?
Two forces that turn existing rocks into metamorphic rocks.
What is extreme heat and pressure?
This is increase in the Earth's average global temperatures.
What is global warming, or climate change?
The boundaries where two different air masses meet.
What is a front?
The instrument is used by seismologists to detect and record earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
Water that is absorbed into the ground and stored in underground aquifers
What is groundwater?
How sediments stack up and press together, binding together to form rock layers.
What is cementation (or compaction)?
This climate zone experiences hot temperatures and direct sunlight year-round.
What is the tropical zone?
The effect that causes global winds to curve because of Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The area around the Pacific Ocean where most active volcanoes and earthquakes occur.
What is the Ring of Fire?