Heat Transfer / Matter
Water Cycle
Weather Instruments
Global Weather (Pressure, Fronts, Seasons)
Clouds
100
Is roasting marshmallows over a fire an example of a physical or chemical change?
What is a chemical change?
100
What is the fancy word for plant sweat?
What is Transpiration?
100
The instrument used to measure temperature
What is a thermometer?
100
A cold front brings what kind of weather?
What is colder temperatures and heavy storms?
100
This cloud is puffy and white and brings fair weather.
What is a cumulus cloud?
200
What's the name of materials that do not transfer heat easily?
What are insulators?
200
The part of the water cycle where liquid transforms into a gas?
What is evaporation?
200
The instrument used to measure precipitation.
What is a rain guage?
200
What kind of weather would you be experiencing in a high pressure area?
What is clear skies and cooler, drier weather?
200
Cirrus clouds are made up of what?
What is ice crystals?
300
Stirring a cup of hot tea, causing a metal spoon to get warm is an example of what kind of heat transfer?
What is Conduction?
300
This stage of the water cycle is responsible for clouds forming, where gas returns to a liquid?
What is condensation?
300
This is a picture of what weather instrument/tool?
What is a anemometer?
300
It is summer in the Northern hemisphere and you are traveling to the Southern hemisphere. What season are they experiencing?
What is winter?
300
What clouds would be described as low, gray, and blanketlike. They bring light showers and an overcast.
What is stratus clouds?
400
Bill stands in a swimming pool and notices that the water around his feet is a lot cooler than the water near the surface. The water being cooler at the bottom is an example of what type heat transfer?
What is Convection?
400
The four different examples of precipitation?
What are rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
400
The instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
What do we call the abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific that occurs every 2-7 years. It brings higher temperatures and more rain.
What is El Nino?
400
The type of weather Cumulonimbus clouds bring.
Severe weather
500
True or False: A physical change always creates a new substance
What is false?
500
These two parts of the water cycle are most responsible for water being replaced in large bodies of water?
What are Precipitation and runoff?
500
The instruments used to measure wind speed and wind direction?
What are anemometer and wind (weather) vane
500
The jet stream forms between a ________ and a ____________.
What is a cold air mass and a warm air mass?
500
What kind of weather do thin, wispy, and curly clouds high up in the sky bring?
Fair weather, but a change is coming!