Air Masses and Weather Fronts
An ____ _______ is a large body of air with roughly the same temperature and humidity.
Air Mass
A characteristic belonging to a population or organism. Humans can manipulate traits through artificial selection.
Trait
_____________ is the average weather over many years.
Climate
An ________ is the basic unit of an element. It consists of protons, neutrons and electrons.
atom
This law of motion states that an object’s motion won’t change unless acted upon by a force.
Newton's First Law of Motion
A type of weather front where COLD MASSES OVERTAKE warm air masses.
Cold Front
Part of a chromosome that is inherited from the parent(s) and determine some of an organism’s characteristics.
Gene
Coal, oil, and natural gas formed from the fossilized, buried remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.
Fossil Fuels
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
Matter
This law of motion states that heavier objects need a larger force to make them move.
Newton's Second Law of Motion
A type of weather front where WARM AIR masses overtake cold air masses.
Warm Front
A process when humans choose specific traits they want and breed organisms together for those specific traits.
Artificial Selection
____________ is day-to-day variation of the atmosphere’s condition locally.
Weather
Two or more atoms bonded together.
Molecule
This law of motion states that for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.
Newton's Third Law of Motion
A type of weather front where a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet, but neither pushes the other out of the way.
Stationary Front
When humans use natural biological processes to solve a human problem.
Biotechnology
________ ___________ are replenished naturally and over relatively short periods of time. The five major renewable energy resources are solar, wind, water (hydro), biomass, and geothermal.
Renewable Resources
A chart of all known elements that scientists reference when working with atoms or molecules.
Periodic Table
A force resulting from two objects rubbing against each other.
Friction
A type of weather front where an air mass gets separated from the ground by a fast-moving cold air mass, resulting in heavy rain
Occluded Front
Doctors inject healthy DNA into a person’s cell to replace damaged DNA for specific disorders.
Gene Therapy
Process of gases in the atmosphere like carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor that absorb infrared light and redirect it back toward Earth, which keeps Earth warm.
Greenhouse Effect
____________ is made up of protons and neutrons clumped together at the center of an atom to form
Nucleus
A force that pulls objects down towards the Earth.
Gravity