Clouds/Weather
Weather/Climate
Rocks
Tides, Waves, and Currents
Ocean Floor and VA Watershed
100

What is a hurricane?

A storm that forms over water with an eye that causes heavy wind and rain

100

Low pressure days bring this kind of weather

What is lousy, rainy weather

100

Geologists classify rocks into 3 major groups

What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic

100

Salinity

The saltiness of water

100

Sea Mounts or sea ridge

What is an underwater mountain?

200

Name 4 types of clouds

What is cumulus, stratus, cumulonimbus, and cirrus

200

The weather forecast shows that there will be high pressure today, what kind of weather will it be?

What is happy weather that is sunny and dry

200

The type of rock that forms from magma or lava cooling

What is igneous rock

200

The main cause of the tide

What is the moon.

200

How many times does the hide tide or low tide occur in 24 hours?

What is twice

300

What type of cloud is wispy and feathery

What is cirrus

300

Feeling like the air is weighing down on you, to measure air pressure use me

What is a barometer

300

This is how metamorphic rocks are created.

What is extreme heat and pressure

300

Wave length

What is the distance between the crests of waves?

300

What order the ocean zones in from shallowest to deepest?

Sunlight Zone

Twilight Zone

Midnight Zone

400

What type of cloud appears as a blanket covering the sky and lets you know rain is coming?

What is Stratus

400

The difference between climate and weather.

Climate is the average weather in a particular location over a long period of time. Weather is the day to day changes in temperature, precipitation, and atmosphere.

400

Igneous rock transform to sediment by processes called ___________ & ____________

What is weathering and erosion

400

What mainly drives currents?

Wind

400

What ocean zone is least likely to have lots of sea animals living there? Why?

Midnight zone: Colder, higher pressure, darker

500

These are the four types of precipitation

What is snow, rain, hail, and sleet?

500

You would not be able to go outside because of the amount of snow from this storm

What is a blizzard

500

These types of rocks can become metamorphic rocks

What is igneous, sedimentary and other metamorphic rocks

500

What are the parts of a wave?

Crest and trough

500

Name a bay, ocean, river, and lake in Virginia.

Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach (Atlantic Ocean), James River, Lake Anna. Many other answers.