What is one year?
What is 365.4 days?
Water evaporates due to __________.
What is thermal energy or heat from the sun?
What is radiation, convection and conduction?
The large pieces of Earth's lithosphere are called ____________>
What are plate tectonics?
There are 3 types of rocks on Earth.
What are sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic?
The sixth planet from the sun is __________.
What is Saturn?
After water evaporates high into the atmosphere, it begins to ___________.
What is crystallize or freeze?
A metal spoon begins to get warm from being in a hot bowl of soup. Name the type of heat transfer.
What is conduction?
The force that drives plate movement on Earth?
What are convection currents in the mantle?
This air pressure is usually happening with clear skies.
What is high pressure?
The moon moves between the Earth and the Sun creating this type of eclipse.
What is a lunar eclipse?
There are 4 types of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, sleet and hail?
This type of transfer happens in liquids and gases.
What is convection?
The 4 layers of Earth/
What is the crust, mantle, outer core and inner core?
The sand at the beach is warmer than the water and cools off quicker at night than the water. The reason this happens is due to...
What is water absorbing thermal energy at a slower rate than what land does? What is land releases thermal energy quicker and easier than water?
Earth is heated unevenly due to ________.
What is the curvature or shape of Earth?
Water in a gas form is called _______.
What is water vapor?
Heat moves from one temperature to another and then stops moving when the temperatures are the same.
What is hot to cold?
The boundary that occurs when plates collide.
What is a convergent boundary?
Latitude affects climate because ________.
What is the closer to the equator the warmer the climate?
During the winter, the northern hemisphere is tilted ________.
What is away from the sun?
The process that allows water to soak into the ground.
What is infiltration?
An air conditioner blows out cold air that circulates and cools a warm room. The air is moving through ___________.
What is convection currents?
Whenone layer is forced under another. Usually involving oceanic crust.
What is subduction?
What is density? What is thunderstorms and precipitation?