Weather
The area of the hurricane with the calmest winds
What is the eye?
Water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow and hail
What is precipitation?
A place where anything is kept or stored.
What is a Reservoir?
Green plants use solar energy to turn atmospheric CO2into carbohydrates.
What is Photosynthesis?
Heat energy transfer between two parts of a fluid of different temperatures
What is Convection Currents?
The atmosphere is composed of mainly this element
What is Nitrogen
Process by which water vapor is changed into a liquid
What is condensation?
Nitrogen compounds are vital components of foods, explosives, and this farming product.
What are fertilizers?
Short term Carbon Cycle (hours, days, years)
What is the Biological Carbon Cycle?
This process of the ocean is due to the gravitational attraction of the moon
What are tides?
This instrument is used to measure a hurricane’s air pressure
What is a Barometer?
The area of land where all the water that falls in it and drains off of, goes into the same place
What is a watershed?
The process where extra nitrogen in the soil gets put back out into the air.
What is Denitrification?
The amount of carbon taken up by photosynthesis and released back to the atmosphere by respiration each year is about this many times greater than the amount of carbon that moves through the geological cycle.
What is a 1000 times?
The Great Salt Lake has a larger amount of this solution that makes it easy to float.
What is Salinity?
The layer of the atmosphere where weather happens
What is the troposphere?
This reservoir is considered a Superhighway used to transport water around the globe
What is the atmosphere?
Process where N2 molecules in the air break apart and combine with other atoms to form ammonium or NH4.
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
The reverse process of photosynthesis. CO2 is released back into the atmosphere.
What is respiration?
Which era in the geologic time scale is would you find dinosaurs?
What is the Mesozoic Era?
This process of Earth causes the force of the Coriolis Effect
What is Earth's rotation?
Another name for groundwater, usually describes water bearing formations
What is an Aquifer?
Organisms near top of food chain eat plants taking up biologically fixed nitrogen during this process
Rapid chemical combination of a substance with oxygen involving the production of heat, light, and the release of CO2
What is Combustion?
the amount of energy the wave carries per second through a unit of area
What is Intensity?