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Define conduction
What is the transfer of thermal energy between objects in contact by the collisions between the particles in the objects?
The difference between weather and climate
What is that climate describes long-term patterns over a specific area and weather describes short-term conditions?
Compression causes a material to shorten
What is true?
The 3 ways temperature is measured
What is degrees Fahrenheit, degrees Celsius, and Kelvins?
I am in the kitchen waiting for you to wrap me over something
What is aluminum?
Define precipitation
What is all solid and liquid forms of water-including rain, snow, sleet, and hail-that fall from clouds?
The side of a mountain that is dry and warm
What is the leeward side?
Earthś inner core is mostly liquid iron and nickel
What is false?
The outer core is liquid iron and nickel. The inner core is solid iron and nickel
What Earthś atmosphere is mostly made up of
What is Nitrogen?
Itś very hard to create me, I cannot be destroyed, I can only change form
What is energy?
Define stress
What is Forces per unit area that act on a material-compression,tension, and shear?
Aerosols cause global temperatures to ____
What is lower?
The Mesosphere is closest to Earthś surface
What is false?
The troposphere is closest to Earthś surface
The scientist who hypothesised continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The moon is worth
$1, because it has 4 quarters
Define a return stroke
What is a branch channel of positively charged ions that rushes upward from the ground to meet the stepped leader?
The main source of atmospheric carbon dioxide from humans
What is burning fossil fuels?
The oldest seamount is the Meiji
What is true?
The point above the focus of an earthquake
What is the epicenter?
I can be full but I will never overflow
What is the moon?
Define Prevailing Westerlies
What is a global wind system that lies between 30 and 60 degrees north and south latitudes, where surface air moves toward the poles in an easterly direction?
The angle Earthś tilt changes from every 41,000 years
What is from 22.1 degrees to 23.5 degrees?
Adiabatic heating occurs when air expands
What is false?
Adiabatic heating occurs when air is compressed, adiabatic cooling occurs when air expands
Reverse faults form as a result of ____
What is the result of horizontal and vertical compression?
4 periodic elements, when combined, make up something that terrifies criminals
Carbon, Oxygen, Phosphorous, and Sulfur (C+O+P+S)