Atomic Adventure
A chemical substance that cannot be broken down into anything simpler. Each one is distinguished by a unique number of protons.
What is an Element?
Stored energy
What is Potential Energy?
Moisture in the air, measured with a hygrometer
What is Humidity?
Where all of Earth's energy comes from
What is the Sun?
An educated guess
What is a hypothesis?
The particle that lives in the nucleus of an atom and carries no charge.
What is a Neutron?
Type of energy that cannot be replaced naturally and will run out eventually.
What is Non-Renewable?
Layer of the atmosphere where where virtually all weather takes place
What is the Troposphere?
As altitude increases, air pressure.....
What is Decreases?
What is measured in an experiment
What is the Dependent Variable?
An abbreviation of an element's name. Is usually one capital letter, or one capital and one lowercase letter.
What is a (Chemical) Symbol?
The ability to do work
What is Energy?
Thunderstorms are produced by this type of front
What is a Cold Front?
The method by which the atmosphere traps the sun's radiation
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Type of data based on numbers
What is Quantitative?
Found by adding the number of protons to the number of neutrons.
What is Atomic Mass?
Energy stored in chemical bonds and released during chemical reactions (i.e. food)
What is Chemical Energy?
The average weather conditions of a particular place or region over a period of years
What is Climate?
The majority of the energy from the sun is _______ by the land and oceans
What is Absorbed?
A group that is unchanged in an experiment to be used as a comparison.
What is a Control?
2 or more atoms of different elements bound together by chemical bonds
What is a Compound?
When you rub your hands together on a cold day, the movement of your hands uses friction to change energy forms.
What is Mechanical to Thermal?
Type of pressure system that brings clear skies with cooler dryer air
What is a High Pressure System?
Warm air rises and cold air sinks, creating these currents that move thermal energy through the atmosphere and oceans.
What is Convection?
Process of doing science through testing and experimentation
What is the Scientific Method?