Water Cycle
The water cycle is powered by the ______.
What is the sun?
Which form of precipitation consists of ice pellets mixed with rain or snow?
What is sleet?
Describe weather.
What is the atmospheric condition of a certain place at a certain time...short term....changes quickly?
Electricity discharged within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
What is lightning?
A possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations.
What is a hypothesis?
The process that occurs when water changes from a liquid to a gas caused by heat.
What is evaporation.
Clouds form when water vapor cools into a liquid in a process called _____.
What is condensation?
Describe climate.
What is the long term average weather conditions that occur in a particular region?
A violent, whirling column of air in contact with the ground.
What is a tornado?
The factor measured or observed in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
Describe how condensation occurs.
What is the cooling of water in the atmosphere changing gas to a liquid.
Describe how wind is created.
What is when air moves from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure?
What affects climate?
What is altitude, latitude, topography, large bodies of water, ocean currents?
A period of below average precipitation in an area that can last for several months or years.
What is a drought?
What is an independent variable?
What is the factor that you want to test?
Rainfall that is not absorbed by soil and travels to the ocean.
What is run-off?
Describe what is means for their to be high humidity.
What is there is a lot of water vapor in the air, so it will feel moist outside.
What does climate depend on?
Water that has blown outward from the center of a hurricane, eventually sweeping up onto the coastline as a large wave.
What is storm surge?
How does the amount of light affect the growth of a plant?
What is the independent and dependent variable?
What is....
independent variable: amount of light
dependent variable: growth of a plant
How does the water cycle relate to weather?
What is...the water cycle is the change of water when it evaporates into the air , condenses into clouds, and then precipitates down to earth.
The effect of the sun heating the Earth's surface, causing warm air to rise and cool air to fall is call ____.
What is convection?
How does the angle of incoming sunlight explain why temperatures tend to become cooler as one moves from the equator toward either pole?
What is the angle affects how much solar energy earth's surface receives. The equatorial region receives more direct solar energy from the sun so it is warmer. The poles receive less solar energy so it is colder.
What is a tornado watch is issued when the correct conditions are present to form a tornado. A tornado warning is issued if a tornado is spotted.
What are the steps to the scientific method, in order?
What is...
1.Observation
2. Problem/question
3. Formulate a hypothesis
4. Experiment
5. Collect and analyze results
6. Conclusion
7. Communicate the results