Weather Patterns
Low air pressure results in this type of weather.
What is cloudy skies, or bad weather?
The long-term weather patterns of a place.
What is climate?
This biome has maple, oak, hickory trees and black bears, racoons, and hawks.
What is the deciduous forest?
Something that has mass and volume. It cannot be create or destroyed.
What is matter?
A substance that has a definite volume but does not have a definite shape.
What is a liquid?
The weight of the atmosphere on Earth's surface.
What is air pressure?
A storm that forms over warm ocean water
What is a hurricane?
This biome is very cold and dry and its ground has a layer of permafrost.
What is the tundra?
The amount of matter in something.
What is mass?
A substance that does not have a definite shape or volume.
What is a gas?
A large body of air that has the same temperature and moisture properties throughout.
What is an air mass?
The imaginary line that divides Earth into its northern and southern hemispheres, or halves.
What is the equator?
This biome has the largest number of plant and animal species.
What is the tropical rain forest?
The amount of space something takes up.
What is volume?
A substance with a definite shape and volume.
What is a solid?
The boundary between two air masses. Where weather happens.
What is a front?
Air pressure is measured with this instrument.
What is a barometer?
This biome has fertile soil and is being taken away due to farming.
What is the grassland?
The measure of energy of motion of the particles in matter.
What is temperature?
When matter changes into a new substance it is called a ________________ change.
What is chemical?
This shows information about temperature, fronts, precipitation and more.
What is a weather map?
A warm ocean current that causes an increase in temperatures for land that this is adjacent to.
What is the Gulf Stream?
This is the largest biome and has conifer trees.
What is the taiga?
This is the measurement of gravity on matter.
What is weight?
Matter has physical properties that can be observed without changing the type of matter. Matter can also change in ways that do not affect the type of matter. These changes are called ____________.
What are physical changes?