CLIMATE AND WEATHER

Question 1

TEMPERATURE

Answer 1

measure of the degree of hotness

Question 1

Humidity

Answer 1

Amount of water vapor in air

Question 2

Precipitation

Answer 2

droplets and crystals in cloud grow large enough to fall to the ground

Question 3

wind

Answer 3

horizontal movement of air

Question 4

wind vanes

Answer 4

determine wind direction

Question 5

anemometers

Answer 5

wind speed

Question 6

instrument measuring humidity

Answer 6

hygrometer and psychrometer

Question 7

barometer

Answer 7

air pressure

Question 8

Henry Cavendish

Answer 8

he determine the mass of the earth by newton’s law of gravity

Question 9

law of gravity

Answer 9

Gravitational force between two bodies is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them

Question 10

Isaac newton

Answer 10

earth is not a perfect sphere, disagreed with erathosthenes

Question 11

JP HAYFORD

Answer 11

‘standard earth’ was computed in terms of oblate spheroid

Question 12

lines of latitude

Answer 12

east to west

Question 13

meridian or longitude

Answer 13

north to south, not parallel

Question 14

Crust

Answer 14

outer most layer

Question 15

mid ocean ridges

Answer 15

narrow ridges

Question 16

two plates push against each other

Answer 16

convergent boundaries

Question 17

plates pull away from each other

Answer 17

divergent boundaries

Question 18

magma

Answer 18

melted materials within the earth

Question 19

lava

Answer 19

on surface

Question 20

igneous rock (types : obsidian)

Answer 20

when lava hardens

Question 21

sedimentary rocks

Answer 21

materials cemented together by water, minerals

Question 22

nitrogen

Answer 22

78%

Question 23

O2

Answer 23

21%

Question 24

AR

Answer 24

0.93%

Question 25

CO2

Answer 25

0.035