Studying the Earth
The study of ocean's currents, waves, and marine life.
What is oceanography?
A naturally occurring solid with a crystal structure and specific chemical makeup.
What is a mineral?
The daily conditions of the atmosphere, including temperature, rain, and wind.
What is weather?
The process of liquid water turning into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
A boundary where two different air masses meet, often bringing a change in weather.
What is a Front?
Big, puffy, and cotton-like clouds.
What are cumulus clouds?
The study of Earth's solid parts, including rocks, mountains, and the forces that shape the planet.
What is geology?
Rock formed when molten lava or magma cools and hardens.
What is igneous rock?
The lowest level of the atmosphere where all weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
Water that falls from the sky as rain, snow, or hail.
What is precipitation?
An area of sinking air that brings clear skies and calm weather.
What is a High Pressure?
Thin, wispy, and white clouds, like feathers or streaks high in the sky.
What are Cirrus clouds?
The study of space, planets, stars, and everything beyond Earth's atmosphere.
What is astronomy?
Rock made from layers of sediment that build up and harden over time.
What is sedimentary rock?
The layers of gases surrounding the Earth making life possible.
What is the atmosphere?
The continuous movement of water between the ocean, land, and sky. (hint: two words).
What is the Water Cycle?
An area of rising air that brings clouds and rain>
What is a Low Pressure?
Gray clouds that spread out like a blanket covering the sky.
What are Stratus clouds?
The study of weather, and the atmosphere, including storms, clouds, and rainfall.
What is meteorology?
Rock changed by heat and pressure deep inside the Earth.
What is metamorphic rock?
The long term weather patterns in an area.
What is climate?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
A fast spinning column of air that touches the ground during severe storms.
What is a tornado?
Thick, dark gray clouds that cover the sky completely and bring steady rain (two words)
What are Nimbostratus clouds?
A step by step process for investigating questions and testing ideas through experiments (hint: two words).
What is the Scientific Method?
The continuous process of rocks changing from one type to another over time.
What is the Rock Cycle?
The weight of air pressing down on Earth's surface.
What is Air Pressure?
The process where water vapor cools and changes back into liquid droplets.
What is condensation?
A large tropical storm with strong winds that forms over warm oceans.
What is a hurricane?
Towering, anvil shaped clouds (puffy looking) that can reach high into the atmosphere binging heavy rain, hail and sometimes tornados (hing: two words)
What are Cumulonimbus Clouds?