Transcript Bell Ringer 8-9-10

Bell Ringer 8-9-10
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What is science?
Explain three main skills that
scientists use.
Define the term scientific inquiry.
Bell Ringer 8-11-10
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What is elevation?
What are the three main types of landforms?
What are the characteristics of a mountain?
Bell Ringer 8-12-10
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What is a map?
How are maps and globes similar? How
are they different?
What is a topographic map?
Bell Ringer 8-13-10
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List two things you should do ahead of time
to prepare for a lab.
Why is it more difficult to prepare for a lab
activity in the field than for one in a
laboratory?
Outline in order the next steps you would
take to deal with your injury.
Bell Ringer 8-16-10
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Why is curiosity important to a scientist?
What is a variable?
What is a scientific law?
Bell Ringer 8-17-10
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How do constructive forces shape
Earth?
What is a simulation?
What do geologists do?
Bell Ringer 8-18-10
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What is a controlled experiment?
What is a mountain range?
What are five things you should do
when you complete a lab experiment?
Bell Ringer 8-19-10
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What three major steps make up the
water cycle?
What are Earth’s four main sources of
water?
Which of the four main water sources
contain salt water? Which contain fresh
water?
Bell Ringer 8-20-10
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What bodies of water make up a river
system?
How is a watershed related to a river
system?
How are lakes different from ponds?
Bell Ringer 8-23-2010
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What are icebergs?
What is a divide?
What is a habitat?
Bell Ringer 8-24-10
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What is a salt marsh?
How could you determine the
boundaries of a river system by
studying a map of the United States?
What is the major difference between a
reservoir and most other types of lakes?
Bell Ringer 8-25-10
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What is a wetland?
What are the three main types of
freshwater wetlands?
How are the three major types of
freshwater wetlands similar and
different?
Bell Ringer 8-26-10
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Why might a water table rise and fall?
How do geysers form?
How can people obtain water from an
aquifer?
Bell Ringer 8-27-10
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How do sprinkler irrigation and drip
irrigation differ?
What are three ways to conserve water?
What are pollutants?
Bell Ringer 8-30-10
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Name five ways that people use
water.
How is water used in agriculture?
What are three ways to conserve
water?
Bell Ringer 8-31-10
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What might happen to the supply of
water for agriculture in a region with a
rapidly growing city?
Describe the techniques that industries
can use to conserve water.
What is a point source of pollution?
What is a nonpoint source?
Bell Ringer 9-1-10
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What is a wetland?
What are the three main types of
freshwater wetlands?
How are the three major types of
freshwater wetlands similar and
different?
Bell Ringer 9-2-10
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Why is so little of Earth’s water
available for human use?
Can a large river be a tributary?
Explain
Describe four ways in which lakes can
form naturally.
Bell Ringer 9-7-10
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Why have people in ancient and modern
times explored the oceans?
Why did the ocean floor remain
unexplored until recently?
What is sonar? How did it finally
enable scientists to map the ocean floor?
Bell Ringer 9-8-10
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List four sections of the ocean floor?
Identify the three ocean zones?
What conditions exist in the depths of
the ocean?
Bell Ringer 9-9-10
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Explain how both a wave’s energy and
the water in a wave move.
Why does an ocean buoy bob up and
down as a wave passes by?
What is the wavelength of a wave?
What is wave height?
Bell Ringer 9-10-10
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Which have longer wavelengths –
waves that are close together or waves
that are far apart?
In what direction does a rip current pull
a swimmer?
Name two natural landforms that help
reduce beach erosion.
Bell Ringer 9-13-10
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How do wavelength and wave height
change as a wave enters shallow water?
What is longshore drift, and how does it
affect a shoreline?
Explain how building a groin affects
longshore drift. What happens to the
beach on each side of the groin?
Bell Ringer 9-15-10
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What is a tide?
What force causes tides to occur
on Earth’s surface?
What two types of information
help scientists predict the times
of tides?
Bell Ringer 9-16-10
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Explain why the moon causes a tidal
bulge to form on the side of the Earth
closest to it.
Why do the heights of tides change
during the course of a month?
Describe the positions of the sun,
moon, and Earth during a spring tide
and during a neap tide.
Bell Ringer 9-17-10
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How can tides be used to generate
electricity?
What two types of information help
scientists predict the times of tides?
Under what conditions is it practical to
harness tidal power?
Bell Ringer 9-20-10
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Why does salt water have greater
buoyancy than fresh water?
What are two sources of oxygen in
ocean water?
What is a submersible?
Bell Ringer 9-21-10
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What is salinity?
What is the average salinity of ocean
water?
Describe one factor that increases the
salinity of seawater and one factor that
decreases its salinity.
Bell Ringer 9-22-10
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Where would you find the warmest
ocean temperature on Earth?
How do carbon dioxide and oxygen
levels in the oceans compare to those in
the air?
How does the temperature of ocean
water affect oxygen levels in the water?
Bell Ringer 9-23-10
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How do temperature and pressure change as
you descend in the ocean?
Where in the water column would you
expect to find the following conditions: the
highest pressure readings; the densest
waters; the warmest temperature.
Why is it helpful to be able to predict when
El nino will occur?
Bell Ringer 9-24-10
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What is upwelling?
What is a current?
What causes surface currents to occur?
How does surface currents affect the
climate of coastal areas?
Bell Ringer 9-28-10
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What type of climate might a coastal area
have if nearby currents are cold?
Explain how deep currents form and move in
the ocean.
Compare the causes and effects of deep
currents and surface currents.
What causes upwelling?
Why are huge schools of fish usually found
in zones of upwelling?
Bell Ringer 9-29-10
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Why do scientists use indirect methods to
study the ocean floor?
What is a seamount?
What factors influence the size of a wave?
Why does the height of a wave change as it
approaches shore?
Bell Ringer 9-30-10
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How does a rip current form?
Why are there two high tides a day in
most places?
What is a spring tide? How does it
differ from a neap tide?
Bell Ringer 10-1-10
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Name two properties of ocean water
affected by salinity. How does salinity
affect each?
What is the Corliolis effect? How does
it influence ocean currents?
What is EL Nino? What are some of its
effects?
Describe the cause and effects of
upwelling.
Bell Ringer 10-4-10
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Questions 23 – 25
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Bell Ringer 10-5-10
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What is ozone?
What is water vapor?
Explain one way that air quality could
be improved.
What is the atmosphere?
What are the four most common gases
in dry air?
Bell Ringer 10-6-10
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What are the four most common gases in dry
air?
Why are the amounts of gases in the
atmosphere usually shown as percentages of
dry air?
What are three ways in which the atmosphere
is important to life on Earth?
How would the amount of carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere change if there were no
plants?
What human activity is responsible for the
formation of smog and acid rain?
Bell Ringer 10-7-10
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How does the density of air affect air
pressure?
What are two common units that are used to
measure air pressure?
Why is it hard to breathe at the top of a
mountain?
What is air pressure?
How does increasing the density of a gas
affect its pressure?
Bell Ringer 10-12-10
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What are two instruments that can be used to
measure air pressure?
What units are commonly used to measure air
pressure?
How many millibars are equal to 27.23 inches
of mercury?
What is altitude?
Bell Ringer 10-13-10
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As altitude increases, how does air pressure
change? How does density change?
What changes in air pressure would you
expect if you carried a barometer down a
mine shift?
Why is the upper stratosphere warmer than
the lower stratosphere?
What is the ionosphere?
Bell Ringer 10-14-10
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List the four main layers of the atmosphere,
beginning with the layer closest to Earth’s
surface?
What property is used to distinguish the
layers of the atmosphere?
Give at least one important characteristic of
each of the four main layers of Earth’s
atmosphere.
Bell Ringer 10-15-10
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Which color of the visible light has the
longest wavelengths?
What is the greenhouse effect?
List three forms of radiation from the sun.
Which form of radiation from the sun has the
longest wavelength? The shortest
wavelength?
Bell Ringer 10-18-10
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What happen to most of the sunlight
that reaches Earth?
Why are sunsets red?
What happens to the energy from the
sun that is absorbed by Earth’s surface?
Which temperature scale do scientists
use?
Bell Ringer 10-19-10
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How is the air near Earth’s surface
heated?
What is temperature?
What instrument is used to measure air
temperature?
Name three ways that heat can be
transferred.
Bell Ringer 10-20-10
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How do the three types of heat transfer work
together to heat the troposphere?
What is the major way that heat is transferred
in the troposphere?
Toward what direction does a west wind
blow?
Which way do winds turn in the Southern
Hemisphere?
Bell Ringer 10-21-10
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What is wind?
How is wind related to air temperature
and air pressure?
What are local winds?
What causes local winds?
Bell Ringer 10-22-10
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What causes local winds?
Compare the conditions that cause a sea
breeze with those that cause a land
breeze.
Name the three major global wind belts.
Briefly describe the three major global
wind belts and where they are located.
Bell Ringer 10-25-10
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Explain why it is difficult to include
water vapor in a graph that shows the
percentages of various gases in the
atmosphere.
Name two ways in which carbon dioxide
is added to the atmosphere.
Describe the temperature changes that
occur as you move upward through the
troposphere.
Bell Ringer 10-26-10
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Describe examples of radiation,
conduction, and convection from your
daily life.
Explain how movements of air at the
equator and poles produce global wind
patterns.
Why can an aneroid barometer be used
to indicate changes in elevation as well
as air pressure?
Bell Ringer 10-27-10
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What instrument measures relative
humidity?
What two factors are required for
condensation to occur?
What are stratus clouds?
Bell Ringer 10-28-10
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What is fog?
What is humidity?
How are humidity and relative
humidity different?
Bell Ringer 10-29-10
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What process is involved in cloud
formation?
When are clouds formed by ice crystals
instead of drops of liquid water?
What are the three main types of
clouds?
Bell Ringer 11-1-10
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Classify each of the following cloud
types as low-level, medium-level, or
high-level: altocumulus, altostratus,
cirrostratus, cirrus, cumulus, fog,
nimbostratus, and stratus.
What is sleet?
Name the five common types of
precipitation.
Bell Ringer 11-2-10
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Compare and contrast freezing rain and
sleet.
How do hailstones become so large in
cumulonimbus clouds?
What conditions are necessary for
freezing rain to occur?
Bell Ringer 11-3-10
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Where do continental polar air masses
come from?
What type of weather do cold fronts
bring?
What is an anticyclone?
Bell Ringer 11-4-10
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What two characteristics are used to
classify air masses?
Classify the four major types of air
masses according to whether they are
dry or humid.
What type of air mass would form over
the northern Atlantic Ocean?
Bell Ringer 11-5-10
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What is a front?
Name the four types of fronts and
describe the type of weather each
brings.
What type of front would most likely be
responsible for several days of rain and
clouds?
Bell Ringer 11-8-10
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What is a cyclone?
How does air move in an anticyclone?
How does this movement affect the
weather?
Compare cyclones and anticyclones.
What type of weather is associated with
each?
Bell Ringer 11-9-10
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How can lightning be dangerous?
How can snowstorms be dangerous?
What is a thunderstorm?
Bell Ringer 11-10-10
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What safety precautions should you
follow during a thunderstorm?
What weather conditions are most
likely to produce tornadoes?
Why do tornadoes occur most often in
Tornado Alley?
Bell Ringer 11-11-10
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Under what conditions does precipation
reach the ground as snow?
What should you do if you are caught
in a snowstorm?
What is a hurricane?
Bell Ringer 11-12-10
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How do hurricanes form?
What do hurricanes weaken as they pass
over land?
What is a meteorologist?
Bell Ringer 11-15-10
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What is the “butterfly effect”?
What tools do meteorologists rely on to
forecast the weather?
What is the symbol for a cold front on a
weather map?
Bell Ringer 11-16-10
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Why do clouds usually form high in the
air instead of near Earth’s surface?
Describe sleet, hail, and snow in terms
of how each one forms.
Describe how wind patterns affect the
movement of air masses in North
America.
Bell Ringer 11-17-10
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How does a cold front form?
Describe two situations in which floods
can occur.
What happens to a hurricane when it
moves onto land? Why?
Bell Ringer 11-18-10
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A psychrometer gives the same reading on
both thermometers. What is the relative
humidity?
How do differences in air density influence
the movement of air along cold and warm
fronts?
Compare thunderstorms and tornadoes. How
are they similar? How are they different?
Bell Ringer 11-19-10
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If air pressure is decreasing, what kind of
weather is likely to occur?
Would you expect hurricanes to form over
the oceans off the northeast or northwest
coasts of the United States? Explain
Why can’t meteorologists accurately forecast
the weather a month in advance?
Bell Ringer 11-29-10
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What effect do oceans have on the
temperatures of nearby land areas?
Why does precipitation fall mainly on
the windward sides of mountains?
In June, what season is it in the
Southern Hemisphere?
Bell Ringer 11-30-10
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Name four factors that affect
temperature.
How does temperature vary in Earth’s
temperature zones?
List three factors that affect
precipitation.
Bell Ringer 12-1-10
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How do prevailing winds affect the
amount of precipitation an area receives?
What causes the seasons?
Describe how the seasons are related to
Earth’s orbit around the sun.
Bell Ringer 12-2-10
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What parts of the United States have
tropical rainy climates?
What is a desert?
What region of the United States has a
humid subtropical climate?
Bell Ringer 12-3-10
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Which area of the United States has a
subarctic climate?
What type of vegetation is found on the
tundra?
What two major factors are used to
classify climates?
Bell Ringer 12-6-10
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What other factor did Koppen use in
classifying climates?
What are the six main climate regions?
How is a tropical wet climate similar to
a tropical wet-and-dry climate? How
are they different?
Bell Ringer 12-7-10
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In what climate region would you find
plains covered with short grasses and
small bushes? Explain.
Why do marine west coast climates
have abundant precipitation?
Which place would have more severe
winters – central Russia or the west
coast of France? Why?
Bell Ringer 12-8-10
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Place the following climates in order
from coldest to warmest: tundra,
subartic, humid continental, ice cap.
How could a forest grow on a mountain
that is surrounded by a desert?
What are two ways scientists study
ancient climates?
Bell Ringer 12-9-10
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Why were the oceans lower during the
ice ages than they are now?
What was Pangaea?
What principle do scientists follow in
studying ancient climates?
Bell Ringer 12-10-10
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What types of evidence do scientists
gather to study changes in climate?
What is a glacier?
What occurs during an ice age?
Bell Ringer 12-13-10
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What are four factors that could be
responsible for changing Earth’s
climate?
How often does El Nino typically
occur?
What are three possible effects of
global warming?
Bell Ringer 12-14-10
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What are CFCs?
What are two events that can cause
short-term climate change?
Describe the changes that occur in the
Pacific Ocean and the atmosphere
above during El Nino.