Vocabulary
True or False
States of Matter & Energy
Earth’s Layers & Landforms
Weather & Atmosphere
100

What is a substance made of only one type of atom?

What is an element? 

100

True or False: Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space.

What is true?

100

Which state of matter has a definite shape and volume?

What is a solid?

100

Which part of Earth contains most of its water?

What is the hydrosphere

100

What layer of the atmosphere is where weather occurs?

What is the troposphere?

200

What is the change of state from a liquid to a gas?

What is vaporization?  

200

True or False: Liquids have a fixed shape.

What is false?

200

Which state of matter has no definite shape but definite volume?

What is a liquid?

200

What landform has low elevation and low relief?

What is a plain?

200

What front is non-moving and where warm and cold air meet?

What is a stationary front?

300

What do we call the ability to do work or cause change?

What is energy?

300

True or False: An atom has a positively charged center called the center.

What is False?

300

Which state of matter has neither definite shape nor volume?

What is a gas?

300

What layer of Earth is solid iron and nickel?

What is the inner core?

300

What air mass forms in the tropics and has low pressure?

What is tropical?

400

What is the percentage of water vapor in the air compared to the maximum it can hold?

What is relative humidity? 

400

True or False: The mantle is Earth’s thinnest layer.

WHat is false 

400

What kind of energy is energy in motion?

What is kinetic energy?

400

What landform is formed by sediment buildup?

What is a delta? 

400

What process turns water vapor into liquid water?

What is condensation?

500

What is the change in state directly from a solid to a gas?

What is sublimation?

500

True or False: The atmosphere is the thin envelope of gases that surrounds Earth.

What is true?

500

What is the process of a gas changing to a liquid?

What is condensation?

500

Name one sphere that contains weather.

What is the atmosphere

500

What air mass is cold and dry?

What is continental polar?