Solar System
Weather and Climate
Weather and Climate 2
Plates and Volcanoes
Fossil Fuels
100
The amount of gravity depends on what two factors?
Mass and Distance
100
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather is constantly changing
Climate is an average taken over many years
100
What is the name of the effect that causes cyclones in the northern hemisphere to spin counterclockwise?
Coriolis Effect
100
What is the ring of fire?
An area along the Pacific Ocean where many earthquakes and volcanoes appear due to the amount of plate movement that occurs there.
100
What are the three fossil fuels?
Coal
Oil
Natural Gas
200
Which measurement never changes no matter the gravitational pull?
Mass
or
Weight
Mass
200
What is the thinnest layer of the atmosphere where all weather happens?
Troposphere
200
A psychrometer measures relative humidity, what does a barometer measure?
Air pressure
200
How do earth's plates move?
convection currents
200
Why are fossil fuels nonrenewable?
They take millions of years to form.
300
Why do we have seasons?
Seasons change based on the tilt of earths axis and which hemisphere has direct sunlight.
300
Is air pressure higher or lower at the top of a mountain? why?
Air pressure is lower because there are fewer molecules above the top of the mountain.
300
Areas of equal air pressure connected by lines on a map are called what
Isobars
300
What forms when molten material rises through the middle of a plate and erupts through the crust?
A hot spot
300
What is the greenhouse effect?
The ability of earths atmosphere to trap heat.
400
Which kind of tide is shown?
Spring
400
Why do coastal cities have warmer winters than cities that are inland?
The ocean helps to keep the air on the coasts warm
400
What 2 things are necessary for clouds to form?
Cooling air and particles to condense on
400
Give an example of an island arc
Hawaii
Japan
Phillipines
400
What are the greenhouse gases?
Water Vapor
Carbon Dioxide
Methane
500
Name all the planets in our solar system
mercury
venus
earth
mars
jupiter
uranus
saturn
500
What event, that causes us to have warmer winters, occurs when the pacific ocean is unusually warm?
El Nino
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! What would you like to wager?
Name the 4 different kinds of precipitation and if/where they freeze.
Rain-does not freeze
Snow- in the cloud
Sleet- in the air
Freezing Rain- on the ground
500
What types of boundaries do volcanoes form at?
Convergent and Divergent
500
Why is earth's global temperature increasing?
Increase of greenhouse gases traps more heat than it is supposed to.