Nature of Science
Which of these phrases is an observation?
1.I like turtles.
2. The Earth revolves around the Sun.
3. Trains are cool.
4. My hair is the best.
2. What is "The Earth Revolves around the Sun"
What makes a year, and what makes a day for Earth?
What is a revolution, and what is a rotation?
1. How much moisture is in the air.
2. How quickly the air around me is moving
3. How heavy the air is around me.
4. How hot/cold the air is around me.
1. Humidity
2. Wind Speed
3. Pressure
4. Temperature
Match the definition with the vocabulary word:
1. How far away from the equator you are.
2. How high above sea level you are
1. Latitude
2. Elevation
Match the word to the definition:
1. When a liquid turns to a gas
2. When a gas turns to a liquid
3. When water falls from the sky
1. Evaporation
2. Condensation
3. Precipitation
What is the definition of an opinion?
Provide an example.
Examples vary.
Explain the moon phases and provide a drawing of each phase.
Answers Vary
What are the 4 forms of precipitation, and how do they form?
Rain - Hot weather
Snow - Below freezing
Sleet - Rain that freezes in the air
Hail - Rain that gets caught in an updraft and freezes repeatedly in the clouds.
What is the component of climate that makes temperature MILDER, and increases the amount of precipitation?
What is proximity to large bodies of water?
What state of matter is water in during the water cycle?
Solid, Liquid, and Gas
What are galaxies made of? (3 things)
If I am experiencing low pressure, high humidity, and high temperature; what weather conditions should I expect?
If a city has high elevation, and is in the Polar zone, what temperature/precipitation should they expect?
Cold temperature, and high precipitation.
What weather component determines the type of precipitation in the water cycle?
Temperature
What do experiments have that investigations do not?
A variable/control group.
Identify the differences between inner and outer planets.
- Revolution - Rings
- Make-up - Temperature
- Moons
What are the components of weather?
Humidity
Wind Speed
Wind Direction
Pressure
Temperature
Precipitation
Look at the description of a land area-
Desert-Mountain-Forest-Ocean
Why is there a desert so close to a forest?
Mountains block the clouds/precipitation.
Name the 4 primary cloud types, and the weather that they bring.
Cirrus - Fair weather, windy, no precipitation
Cumulus- Warm, windy, no precipitation
Cumulonimbus- Storm Clouds, lots of rain/snow/sleet/hail
Stratus- Rain all day, blanket clouds that cover the sky.
Create a testable question.
Things your question should include - 1 Variable, Specification, What is being tested, and a control (You are designing an experiment).
Answers vary.
Name all of the object in our solar system (Planets are the only ones that need their actual name).
Asteroids, Comets, Sun, "Planets", Meteors, Moons.
What are all of the weather tools, and what do they measure?
Barometer- Pressure
Anemometer- Wind Speed
Wind Vane- Wind Direction
Rain Guage- Precipitation
Hygrometer- Humidity
Temperature- Thermometer
Match the Environment with the description:
1. Very High Humidity, Very High Precipitation, Warm Consistent Temperature
2. High Humidity, High Precipitation, Warm/Moderate Temperature
3. Low Humidity, Varying Precipitation, Temperature changes with seasons
4. Low Humidity, Little Precipitation, Very Cold Temperature
5. Low Humidity, Little Precipitation, Cold/Hot Temperature.
1. Rainforest
2. Swamp/Wetland
3. Grassland
4. Tundra
5. Desert
Draw an accurate model of the water cycle. Be ready to describe each of the steps.
Answers may vary.