What are providing habitat, controlling flooding, and filtering water pollution?
100
A Function of Earth's Atmosphere
What is keep water in liquid form, provide the gases living things need, or protect us from meteoroids and the sun's UV rays that cause sunburns and skin cancer?
100
The Definition of Tornado
What is a funnel-shaped cloud that touches Earth's surface?
100
Definition of a Watershed
What is the area of land that drains all the water into nearby water bodies?
200
Isotherms
What are the lines that connect areas of equal temperature on a weather map?
200
Conservation
What is the wise use of water so that we do not waste it?
200
This Happens in the Troposphere
What is Earth's weather?
200
The Cloud Type Responsible for Hail, Thunderstorms, and Tornadoes
What is cumulonimbus clouds?
200
Global Warming
What is a process that occurs when too many greenhouse gases get into the atmosphere?
300
Millibars
What are the units of measure for air pressure used by the National Weather Service?
300
Where Most of Earth's Freshwater is Found
What is the ice masses at the North and South Poles?
300
Nitrogen and Oxygen
What are the two most abundant gases in our atmosphere?
300
Move to Higher Ground.
What is the best way to protect yourself when you are near flood waters?
300
Greenhouse Effect
What is the process by which carbon dioxide and other gases in the Earth's atmosphere trap the sun's heat?
400
Anemometer and Wind Vane
What are the two tools that measure wind speed and wind direction?
400
An Electricity Source that Does Not Pollute the Air.
What is hydroelectric power?
400
The Source of Acid Rain
What is air pollution produced by factories and cars?
400
Definition of a Hurricane
What is the type of storm that forms over warm ocean waters and has reached wind speeds of at least 119 kph?
400
Animal Action, Abrasion, Plant Growth, and Freezing and Thawing
What are examples of mechanical weathering?
500
Meteorologist
Who is the person that studies weather and tries to predict it?
500
Septic Systems
What are devices built next to rural (country) homes to handle household waste from individual houses that are not connected to public sewer systems? (They can leak into the groundwater and contaminate it.)
500
It Causes Most of the Heat Transfer in Earth's Atmosphere.
What is convection?
500
Maritime Polar
What is an air mass that comes from the North or South Poles and forms over the oceans?
500
Transpiration
What is the process by which plants release water vapor from their leaves?