Transcript Napoleon - Kawameeh Middle School

Hot or Cold
Air all Around
Us
Shear Intuition
Drifting Away
… Again
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These factors affect
weather.
What are winds,
temperature, humidity,
precipitation, and air
pressure?
The following
statement describes
________:
It rains about 20 cm/yr
in this area.
What is climate?
Wind is the movement
of air. Air moves from
areas of _________
pressure to areas of
_______ pressure.
What are high and
low?
This is the boundary
where two different air
masses meet.
What is a front?
This is an air mass that
is warm and wet.
What is Maritime
Tropical?
This is a calm area with
little to no wind
What are Doldrums?
This causes global
winds.
What is the unequal
heating of the
atmosphere?
True or False: Increase
in populations is
evidence of climate
change.
What is False?
__________ is the
atmospheric
conditions, along with
short-term changes, of
a certain place at a
certain time.
What is weather?
Name the layers of the
atmosphere and
something that occurs
in each layer.
Troposphere: surfaceweather
Stratosphere: ozone layer,
airplane fly
Mesosphere: meteors
Thermosphere: satellites
Ionosphere: Auroras
Exosphere: space-no
definite end
This is known as a
weak spot where
magma erupts onto the
surface.
What are volcanoes?
Most earthquakes will
occur along these.
What are plate
boundaries?
Volcanoes will not
form at these, but
Earthquakes will.
What are transform
boundaries?
Convection currents
cause these to move.
What are tectonic
plates?
This forms where two
oceanic plates collide.
What is a subduction
zone?
These are preserved
remains or traces of
once living things.
What are fossils?
The hypothesis that
continents have slowly
moved to their current
locations is known as
this.
What is continental
drift?
Matching ______
structures located on
different continents
supports the
hypothesis of
continental drift.
What is rock?
Scientists find a
fossilized footprint of a
dinosaur, this is an
example of this type of
fossil.
What is a trace fossil?
True or False:
An old stone tool
found in a cave is an
example of a fossil.
What is False?
______ _____is the global wind
belt responsible for the weather in
the U.S..
What is Prevailing
Westerlies?
The Coriolis Effect causes
winds to do this.
What is curve?
The _____________ is
made up of all the
fossils ever discovered
on Earth.
What is fossil record?
This is the correct
order of divisions
of time of the
Geological Time
Scale from largest
to smallest.
What are eons, eras,
and periods?
Organic matter breaks down to
become this type of soil.
What is fertile and nutrient
rich?