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Weather
Ecosystems
Forces and Motion
Water Cycle
Heat
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This is produced by differences in air temperature

 Wind

100

What best describes both marshes and swamps? most plants in marshes and swamps are trees most of the plants in marshes and swamps are grasses most of the plants in marshes are trees....in swamps their grasses. most of the plants in marshes are grasses; most plants in swamps are trees

What are plants in marshes are grasses and plants in swamps are trees

100
This force would be needed to make a ball at the base of a ramp move up the ramp.
What is force?
100
The sun has this effect on the water cycle? It causes the ocean water to evaporate It creates the water droplets in the clouds It forces water to drain back into the ocean It makes the clouds produce precipation
What is it causes the ocean water to evaporate?
100
A hot biscuit is warming the plate it is on is an example of this type of heat transfer.
What is conduction?
200
Micheal observes the air pressure daily. Over the last couple of days the air pressure has been dropping. What weather will he most likely observe as a result?
What is increasingly cloudy skies and possible storms
200
What ecosystem would contain a star fish, kelp, rocks, salt water? stream lake tide pool river
What is a tide pool
200
This results when sand is spread on an icy road.
What is friction?
200
This process in the water cycle is directly caused by the heat from the sun?
What is evaporation?
200
This type of heat transfer is occurring when a boiling pot of water is on the stove.
What is Conduction
300
What effect would occure when an area change is due to a high pressure system replacing a low pressure system
What is the area would become cooler with less humidity
300
This one factor is common in both a forest and a grassland ecosystem. climate trees soil composition variety of organisms
What is variety of organisms?
300
The Great Smoky Mountain RR travels 28 km between Bryson City and Dillsboro. The trip takes 50 minutes...the speed of the train would be this.
What is 0.52 km/min?
300
This is said to most likely increase transpiration. increased runoff & increased cloud cover increased runoff and deceased cloud cover decreased runoff and increased cloud cover decreased runoff and decreased cloud cover
What is increased run off and decreased cloud cover?
300
This transfer of heat is due to the movement of gases or liquids
What is convection?
400
What is most associated with a thunderstorm? low air pressure high air pressure winds blowing from the West winds blowing from the East
What is a low air pressure system
400
Which best explains the adaptations needed for organisms living in an estuary ecosystem? adapted to salt water adapted to fresh water adapted to both salt and fresh water
What is adapted to both salt and fresh water?
400
A force causes an object to be in motion. This will most likely happen to the motion of the object if the weaker force begins acting on the object in the opposite direction.
What is the speed of the object will decrease?
400
This is formed when water vapor rises and cools and the liquid water in the air comes together.
What is a cloud
400
This is the original source of most of the energy that people use.
What is energy that reaches the earth's surface by radiation from the sun.
500
This best explains why the weather across the US continually changes
What is the movement of high and low pressure masses
500
This ecosystem has the greatest variation in temperature from the top to its bottom.
What is the ocean?
500
Peter helped his family move last week. He notices when he tried to slide a heavy box across the floor, it was difficult. This factor best explains what has happened.
What is friction
500
This occurs when a glass of cold water is sat on a desktop. Later that day, beads of water had formed on the outside of the glass.
What is water vapor condensed on the sides.
500
This process explains how an unlit candle melted while laying in front of a hot fireplace.
What is heat energy from the fire was radiated through the air into the candle.