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The Wa-Wa-Cycle
Weather
Climate
1st Nine Weeks
2nd Nine Weeks
100
The sun
What is the driving force of the water cycle?
100
The daily atmospheric conditions of an area.
What is the definition of weather?
100
The average of atmospheric conditions in an area over many years.
What is the definition of climate?
100
A best guess answer to your question using research or back ground knowledge?
What is a hypothesis?
100
The breaking down of rocks, soil, and other materials into sediment.
What is weathering?
200
The majority of the evaporation for the water cycle comes from this body of water.
What is the ocean?
200
Daily, sometimes even hourly.
What is how often the weather can change?
200
The climate in Texas
What is an area that is hot and dry.
200
Characteristics used to identify matter. For example: color, size, shape, or texture.
What are Physical Properties?
200
Electricity made from building a dam across running water.
What is hydroelectricity?
300
Transpiration
What it is called when water is evaporated from the leaves of a plant?
300
7 to 10 days
What is the furthest out that weather can be accurately predicted?
300
10 - 30 years
What is the length of time often used to determine a climate of an area.
300
How much "stuff" is in something and how closely the molecules are packed together.
What is density?
300
Canyons, deltas, and u-shaped valleys.
What are landforms created by rivers?
400
Percolation
What it is called when the water soaks into the ground and then filters through rock to the water table?
400
Barometric (or air) pressure, humidity, and temperature.
What are terms used when forecasting the weather?
400
Preparing for the future, finding a place to move, choosing a vacation.
What are ways that knowing an area's climate can help you?
400
The resistance of an object to change its state of motion.
What is inertia?
400
Broken up pieces of rocks and soil.
What is sediment?
500
A picture of the "wa-wa" cycle.
What is ...a picture on the board?
500
Letting you know what to wear, what you could do, where you can go on any given day.
What are ways that knowing the weather can help you?
500
Global warming and changing ocean currents
What are examples of things that can change climates?
500
The concept that hot molecules rise while cooler molecules sink, forming a cycle.
What is convection?
500
The energy something has when it is moving.
What is kinetic energy?