Fab Vocab
A flash of light as a result of a change in energy potential
What is lightning
The four major oceans
What is Southern/Arctic, Pacific, Indian, Atlantic
One of the three stages of a thunderstorms lifecycle
What is cumulous, mature, dissipate
The first step in the scientific method
What is ask a question
The movement of deep-water is due to density change
What is True
Energy transfer; to disappear
What is Dissipate
This causes the movement of water in the upper layer
What is waves
Two of the four air masses
What is continental, Maritime, Polar, and Tropical
The step after hypothesis
What is experiment
Lack of greenhouse gases would make the Earth hot
What is False
An area of rapid temperature change
What is thermocline
Two factors that determine the density of water
What is salinity and temperature
Scale that is used for tornado strength
What is E/F or Fujita scale
What is try again
Tornadoes normally go Southwest to Northeast
What is true
The side of the mountain that is desert like
What is leeward side
The oceans salinity
What is 35% or 35 parts per thousand
The instrument used to track and locate storm cells
What is radar
The phrase given to help remember the scientific method
What is Queen Rachel Hopes Every Child Gaines Courage
A city is less likely to have flooding than a countryside
What is False
The slow clockwise rotation of the axis of Earth around a cone due to gravitational tugs
What is Axial Precession
Draw a gyre and include both temperature and directionality.
West: warm and towards the poles
East: cold and towards the equator
The three Milankovitch cycles
What is eccentricity, obliquity and axial precession
The seven steps of the scientific method
What is Question, Research, Hypothesis, Experiment, Collect Data, Analyze/Graph, and Conclusion
A tropical depression comes before a tropical storm