Mod 5
The vast majority of water on the earth is in the oceans, so what kind of water is most likely to be
found?
Saltwater
There are 4 types of mountains listed in our text. Which mountains indicate volcanic activity?
A. Volcanic mountain – result of magma moving from mantle to the earth’s crust. If a crack raches
to the surface, magma pours out and forms a mountain. Any volcano (active or dormant)
B. Domed mountain - when magma pushes up on the crust but there is no crack for the magma to
escape. Zuni mountains in New Mexico
Why is the Northern Hemisphere in winter at perihelion?
It is pointed away from the sun. This is
more important than the distance from the sun.
In one of these, there is one updraft system and one resulting thundercloud. There are
several of these in one thunderstorm.
Thunderstorm cell
In the dark, balloon, hair rubbing experiment, the balloon picked up what kind of charges?
Negative Charges
What is a glacier?
What forms when snow and ice pile up on a mountain and the weight of it causes
it to slide
The Earth is viewed as having five distinct sections: atmosphere, hydrosphere and what are the other
3 sections?
Crust, mantle, and core
Hot air is lighter than cold air, so cold air will sink and create what kind of a pressure region?
High pressure
What is the most typical form of lightning?
Cloud-to-Cloud
The Coriolis effect causes hurricanes/cyclones to
rotate in which direction in Australia.
Clockwise
Adiabatic cooling causes what to form?
Clouds
What is the phenomenon that allows the the outer core to be hot enough to be molten yet the inner
core still be a solid?
Pressure Freeze
Insolation stands for what?
Incoming solar radiation
When a tornado touches the ground, it marks the beginning of what stage?
Organization
We added multiple lit matches to our pop bottle in our lab on forming clouds. What does that
represent in our atmosphere?
cloud condensation nuclei
Why are glaciers and icebergs important to the Earth’s water supply?
It is where most of Earth’s freshwater is stored.
Pangaea is a ______________________ that existed in Earth’s ________________________.
Pangaea is a supercontinent that existed in Earth's past.
Where is a cirrus cloud located in the atmosphere and what is is made of?
Top of the troposphere and ice crystals.
Superheated air traveling out from the lightning bolt in waves forms what?
Thunder
Our batteries, nail and wire in lab 6.3 created an electrical current. What phenomenon does that
model for the earth?
Earth is a big magnet
Why is the salinity of the ocean evidence that the Earth if not billions of years old?
The ocean is not salty enough to be billions of years old. It would have to be a lot saltier than it is now.
What allows Earth to block cosmic rays from the sun?
Magnetic field
The way In which the rotation of the earth bends the path of winds, sea currents, and objects that fly
through different latitudes is called?
The Coriolis Effect.
What is responsible for most of the light and sound in a lightning bolt?
The return stroke
When does plastic rock behave like a solid?
When an abrupt force is added.