Show:
Air Pressure and Wind
Plant Responses
Atmosphere and Air Temperature
Water in the Air
Clouds of Water and Ice
100
Air that moves horizontally
What is wind?
100
Something in the environment that causes a living thing to react
What is stimulus?
100
The blanket of gases that surrounds Earth
What is atmosphere?
100
The changing of a gas into a liquid
What is condensation?
100
A cloud that forms at ground level
What is fog?
200
Wind that blows from sea to land
What is sea breeze?
200
A growth response of a plant toward or away from a stimulus
What is tropism?
200
The layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth's surface
What is troposphere?
200
Water in the form of a gas
What is water vapor?
200
Any form of water particles that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground
What is precipitation?
300
A line on a weather map connecting places with equal air pressure
What is isobar?
300
A characteristic that enables a living thing to survive in its environment
What is adaptation?
300
A device for measuring air pressure
What is a barometer?
300
The changing of a liquid into a gas
What is evaporation?
300
A puffy cloud that appears to rise up from a flat bottom
What is a cumulus cloud?
400
A device that measures wind speed
What is anemometer?
400
Looking like something unpleasant as a way of protection
What is mimicry?
400
The amount of the Sun's energy that reaches Earth at a given time and place
What is insolation?
400
The amount of water in the air
What is humidity?
400
A cloud that forms in a blanket-like layer
What is a stratus cloud?
500
The curving of the path of a moving object caused by Earth's rotating
What is Coriolis effect?
500
The automatic responses to a change in environment
What is a inherited behavior?
500
The force put on a given area by the weight of the air above it
What is air pressure?
500
A comparison between condensation and evaporation
What is relative humidity?
500
A high altitude cloud with a feather-like shape, made of ice crystals
What is a cirrus cloud?