Final

Question 1

What is the water cycle?

Answer 1

Path that all water follows as it goes around the earth.

Question 2

What are the stages of the water cycle?

Answer 2

Evaporation,precipitation,collection, condensation

Question 3

What is evaporation?

Answer 3

when water gets soaked up by the sun into the atmosphere.

Question 4

what is transpiration?

Answer 4

Plant roots absorb then release water

Question 5

What is precipitation?

Answer 5

Water that falls from the sky/ hail,sleet,snow,rain

Question 6

The total sum of all the water on Earth and its atmosphere is called?

Answer 6

hydrophere

Question 7

what effect does the sun have on the water on earth m

Answer 7

evaporation

Question 8

what is it called when rain water contributes to lakes and rivers

Answer 8

run off

Question 9

What is condensation?

Answer 9

water vapor is turned into liquid by getting cold

Question 10

what is humidity

Answer 10

how much water vapor is present in the air

Question 11

define fog

Answer 11

Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals

Question 12

define dew point

Answer 12

water droplets saturate

Question 13

Air pressure

Answer 13

It is the force exerted on a surface by the air above it as gravity pulls it to Earth

Question 14

What is weather

Answer 14

short term weather

Question 15

what is climate

Answer 15

long term weather

Question 16

meteorolegy

Answer 16

scientist who study the atmosphere and its changes

Question 17

what causes weather?

Answer 17

by heat from the sun and movement of the earth

Question 18

acid rain

Answer 18

poluted precipitation

Question 19

earths layers

Answer 19

crust,mantle,outer core, inner core

Question 20

what is the crust

Answer 20

rigid rocky outer layer

Question 21

what are lithospheric plates

Answer 21

peices that the crust is broken into

Question 22

what is the lithosphere

Answer 22

the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.

Question 23

what is the mantle

Answer 23

provides the thermal and mechanical driving forces for plate tectonics

Question 24

convection currents

Answer 24

make plates move

Question 25

outer core

Answer 25

so hot the matals are in liquid state

Question 26

inner core

Answer 26

helping to give rise to the magnetic field that protects us from harmful space radiation very hot

Question 27

who proposed sea floor spreading

Answer 27

Harry Hess

Question 28

evidence from sea floor spreading

Answer 28

eruptions of molten material, magnetic stripes in the rock of the ocean floor, and the ages of the rocks themselves.

Question 29

plate tectonic theory

Answer 29

Earth's solid outer crust, the lithosphere, is separated into plates that move over the asthenosphere

Question 30

3 types of plates thay are always moving

Answer 30

convergent,divergent,transform

Question 31

divergent

Answer 31

plates move apart

Question 32

convergent

Answer 32

plates collide

Question 33

transform

Answer 33

slide across eachother

Question 34

subduction zone

Answer 34

A subduction zone is a region of the Earth's crust where one plates subducts under eachother

Question 35

oceanic to continental

Answer 35

oceanic goes under continental: volcanos form

Question 36

oceanic to oceanic

Answer 36

denser plate will go under: island

Question 37

continental to continental

Answer 37

forms mountain ranges

Question 38

where does faults occur

Answer 38

edges of plates

Question 39

definition of each cloud

Answer 39

Cumulous: puffy white Stratus: lowers sheets Cirrus: thin wispy high up

Question 40

what is a volcano

Answer 40

magma erupting

Question 41

What makes up the asteroid belt and what does it do?

Answer 41

divides inner and outer planets millions of still rocks

Question 42

what planet rotates on its side

Answer 42

uranus

Question 43

why are dwarf planets not considered planets

Answer 43

dwarf planet has not cleared the area around its orbit, while a planet has

Question 44

how many earth can fit in a sun

Answer 44

over 1,000,000

Question 45

What is the suns composition

Answer 45

74 hydrogen 25 helium 1 other

Question 46

internal structures of the sun

Answer 46

the core, the radiative zone, and the convective zone

Question 47

what is the core

Answer 47

nuclear fusion

Question 48

what is the radiative zone

Answer 48

surounds the core

Question 49

what is the convective zone

Answer 49

between ratiative zone and surface

Question 50

what is granulation

Answer 50

Hot gasses rise and cooler gas sincks

Question 51

what is the outer structure of the sun

Answer 51

chromosphere photosphere corons

Question 52

what is the photosphere

Answer 52

visible surface of the sun

Question 53

what is the chromeosphere

Answer 53

lower part of the suns atmosphere

Question 54

what is the corona

Answer 54

A corona is thin upper atmosphere of the sun

Question 55

what is the behavior of the sun

Answer 55

m

Question 56

what is planet mercury and facts

Answer 56

Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97 Earth days, the shortest of all the Sun's planets.

Question 57

what is planet venus and some facts

Answer 57

named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. As the brightest natural object in Earth's night sky after the Moon, Venus can cast shadows and can be, on rare occasions, visible to the naked eye in broad daylight.

Question 58

electro magnetic spectrum

Answer 58

Entire range of radiant energy

Question 59

refracting telescope

Answer 59

a telescope which uses a convex lens to collect the light.

Question 60

meteor

Answer 60

travels through space

Question 61

meteoroite

Answer 61

visits earths surface

Question 62

astroid

Answer 62

Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the sun

Question 63

comet

Answer 63

A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases

Question 64

reflecting telescope

Answer 64

a telescope in which a mirror is used to collect and focus light.

Question 65

radio telescope

Answer 65

A radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to detect radio waves

Question 66

what is one light year equal to

Answer 66

6 trillion miles