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Earth's systems
Interactions of Earth's systems
Earth's Atmosphere
Weather
100
Accepted as a fact until it is proven wrong
What is a scientific theory
100
Protects us from ultraviolet radiation
What is the ozone layer?
100
When liquid changes into a gas
What is evaporation?
100
layer that contains the most mass
What is the troposphere?
100
hot and humid weather in Texas during the summer is most likely due to this type of air mass
What is a maritime tropical air mass?
200
If you drop an object, it will fall to Earth
What is an example of a scientific law?
200
Earth's system that contains pine trees.
What is the biosphere?
200
Process in which gas changes to a liquid
What is condensation?
200
the layer of the atmosphere that contains ozone
What is the stratosphere?
200
boundary between two air masses
What is a front?
300
The variable that the investigator changes in a controlled experiment
What is the independent variable?
300
System that contains all of Earth's water.
What is the hydrosphere?
300
Moisture that falls from clouds to Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
300
region in the mesosphere and thermosphere that contains ions?
What is the ionosphere?
300
long term average weather conditions that occur in a particular region
What is climate?
400
The group used to study how a change in the independent variable changes the dependent variable.
What is an experimental group
400
Natural locations where water is stored.
What is a resevoir?
400
a naturally occurring solid composed of minerals and sometimes other materials such as organic matter.
What is a rock?
400
the transfer of heat by the flow of a heated material
What is convection?
400
it rains about 20" a year in this area is an example of this
What is climate?
500
Tests a hypothesis by changing one variable while keeping the other factors constant
What is an experiment?
500
it is stored in cracks and pores beneath Earth's surface.
What is Groundwater?
500
The crust, mantle and the core.
What are the layers of the Earth?
500
transfer of energy that occurs when molecules bump into one another
What is conduction?
500
the most destructive storms on Earth
What is a hurricane?