Science test card

Question 1

What are natural resources?

Answer 1

Parts of environment that provide materials useful for living things

Question 2

What is the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources?

Answer 2

Renewable resources replenish as quickly as we use them and nonrenewable do not replenish as fast as we use them

Question 3

Can a resource be classified as either one? What would cause this?

Answer 3

Yes, If we use them too fast they become nonrenewable

Question 4

What is pollution?

Answer 4

Contaminating the environment with harmful substances

Question 5

What is the atmosphere?

Answer 5

A thin layer of gas surrounding the earth

Question 6

What is the composition of the atmosphere?

Answer 6

78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other

Question 7

How is energy transferred through the atmosphere?

Answer 7

Convection currents

Question 8

What are the 5 layers of the atmosphere?

Answer 8

Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, troposphere

Question 9

What happens to temp. as you move in the troposphere?

Answer 9

It decreases

Question 10

Where is the ozone layer found?

Answer 10

Stratosphere

Question 11

What does the ozone layer do?

Answer 11

Protect us from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays

Question 12

How do scientists hypothesize that the atmosphere formed?

Answer 12

When the earth was magma, it started cooling and it released gasses from volcanic eruptions that formed around the earth. It then cooled and formed the atmosphere

Question 13

What is the difference between weather and climate?

Answer 13

Weather is the atmospheric condition of a specific place at a specific time. Climate is the weather conditions over a specific period of time

Question 14

What is an anomaly?

Answer 14

Something that occurs that is unusual, out of the ordinary and is hard to classify

Question 15

What is air temperature?

Answer 15

Measure of the average kinetic energy of the molecules in the air

Question 16

What is an air pressure?

Answer 16

The force that a column of air applies to the ground and or column below

Question 17

What is another name for air pressure?

Answer 17

Barometric pressure

Question 18

How is wind created?

Answer 18

When air moves from high pressure to low pressure

Question 19

How is wind measured?

Answer 19

Anemometer

Question 20

What is the difference between humidity and relative humidity?

Answer 20

Relative humidity compares current humidity to the max humidity in the air. Humidity is just the amount of water vapor present per cubic metre

Question 21

How is relative humidity measured?

Answer 21

Psychrometer

Question 22

What is the dew point?

Answer 22

Temperature at which air is as full of water as it can be

Question 23

What are clouds?

Answer 23

Droplets of ice crystals and water vapor

Question 24

What is fog?

Answer 24

Clouds near the surface

Question 25

What is stability?

Answer 25

Whether circulating air is strong or weak. Stable air currents are weak and unstable currents are strong

Question 26

What kind of weather is associated with air movements that are classified as unstable?

Answer 26

Warm and sunny

Question 27

What kind of weather is associated with air movements that are classified as stable?

Answer 27

Ground-level air is nearly the same temperature as higher-altitude air

Question 28

What is a temperature inversion?

Answer 28

Occurs in the troposphere when temperature increases as altitude increases

Question 29

What happens with a high-pressure air system?

Answer 29

Low pressure center high pressure outside

Question 30

What is an air mass?

Answer 30

Large body of air with uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure

Question 31

What is the difference between continental and maritime air masses?

Answer 31

COntinental air masses are over land and maritime air masses are over the ocean

Question 32

Where do polar and tropical air masses form?

Answer 32

Polar: over colder regions and Tropical: over warmer regions

Question 33

What is a front?

Answer 33

Boundary between two air masses

Question 34

What is a cold front?

Answer 34

Cold air mass pushes against warm air mass and warm air rises creating clouds and precipitation

Question 35

How does it impact the weather?

Answer 35

It makes precipitation

Question 36

What is a warm front?

Answer 36

When a warm air mass pushes on a cold air mass and the warm one rises slowly creating a blanket of clouds

Question 37

How does it impact weather?

Answer 37

It makes precipitation

Question 38

What is a stationary front?

Answer 38

2 fronts hit and don't move

Question 39

What is an isobar?

Answer 39

Line on weather map showing places with the same pressure

Question 40

What does it tell us when isobars are close together vs farther apart on a map?

Answer 40

Winds are strong when isobars are close together and they are weak when isobars are further apart

Question 41

What is an Isotherm?

Answer 41

Lines on a weather map that connect lines with the same temperature

Question 42

What are some examples of severe weather?

Answer 42

Hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts

Question 43

What factors impact a region's climate?

Answer 43

Where they are, what kinds of weather they have

Question 44

How does climate change as you move away from the equator?

Answer 44

It becomes colder and more extreme

Question 45

How does altitude impact climate?

Answer 45

Altitude increase means the temperature decreases since we are in the troposphere

Question 46

How can mountains impact climate?

Answer 46

They can block wind and make rain shadows

Question 47

What is a rain shadow?

Answer 47

Area of low rainfall ona downwind slope of a mountain

Question 48

How can large bodies of water impact climate?

Answer 48

It makes the land around it have a more consistent climate due to the high specific heat of water

Question 49

What is specific heat?

Answer 49

Amount of thermal energy needed to raise the temperature of 1kg of a material by 1℃

Question 50

What is a microclimate?

Answer 50

Localized climate from the larger climate surrounding it. Ex: a Urban heat island

Question 51

What factors could create a microclimate?

Answer 51

Forest, hilltops and large amounts of concrete and steel

Question 52

How are climates classified?

Answer 52

Polar, continental, dry, tropical, mild

Question 53

How can human activities affect climate?

Answer 53

We burn fossil fuels and destroy forests

Question 54

What is the greenhouse gas effect?

Answer 54

Gasses released into the atmosphere and trap the sun's heat that would otherwise have escaped

Question 55

Where does our knowledge of past climates come from?

Answer 55

From scientists taking samples of ice from the arctic and fossilized pollen

Question 56

What is an ice age?

Answer 56

Millions of years in which ice covers the earth

Question 57

What is an interglacial?

Answer 57

The period after an ice age where the glaciers retreat

Question 58

What causes long-term climate cycles?

Answer 58

The shape of orbit affects the amount of solar energy we receive

Question 59

What causes the seasons?

Answer 59

The tilt of the earth's rotation away from the sun (23.5 degrees)