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Atmosphere and oceans
Water
Wind
Weather readings
Radiation and water cycle
100
Pressure ____________ as you go deeper in the ocean.
What is increases?
100
These use it to make food and grow.
What is plants?
100
Unequal heating in a small area.
What is local winds?
100
Used to measure air pressure.
What is barometer?
100
Water vapor given off by plants.
What is transpiration?
200
Weather occurs in this layer.
What is troposphere?
200
Percentage of freshwater on Earth.
What is 3%?
200
Measures tornado damage.
What is enhanced fujita scale?
200
Weather map symbol for a cold front.
What is Line with triangles on one side?
200
Holding a metal spoon in a fire.
What is conduction?
300
as altitude increases, pressure ...
What is decreases?
300
Water that fills cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock.
What is groundwater?
300
Unequal heating causes differences in ___________.
What is pressure?
300
Measures the relative humidity.
What is psychrometer?
300
Changing from a solid to a gas.
What is sublimation?
400
The less mass in a given volume of air, the less _________ it has.
What is density?
400
69% of our freshwater is found as ...
What is ice?
400
Earth's rotation causes winds to curve to the west.
What is Coriolis Effect?
400
If the wet bulb and dry bulb on the whirling hygrometer read the same. It ____________ percent humidity.
What is 100?
400
Radiation that the ozone layer protects us from?
What is ultraviolet?
500
Gases trapping and holding heat.
What is greenhouse effect?
500
The cause of deep ocean currents is differences in ...
What is temperature and density?
500
A hurricane's storm surge is caused by a combination of 2 factors.
What is high winds and low pressure?
500
Two layers containing the Ozone layer.
What is stratosphere and mesosphere?
500
Causes severe weather do to differences in currents and wind.
What is El Nino?