Weather & Water Flashcards
% Of water in earth?
70%
What causes heat?
Heat is thermal energy transferred to one object to another
% of fresh water?
3%
When there’s a mountain and it’s rain and the water from the rain goes down one side of the rain like Moses lake. Is called what?
Rain shadow effect
What is the process of photosynthesis?
Proccess by which plants algae and certain prokaryotes use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into rich glucose molecules
What effects the temperature in a region?
How close you are to an equator at rude lower warmer higher colder. Geography and oceans
What would happened if the equator air didn’t rotate?
Air would rise an would be replace with cold water
What Is the job of the ozone layer?
Protects us from the sun
What dose the “balance in the water cycle” mean?”
What gose up in the air must fall of the sky
Define Precipitation
Rain snow hail anything that falls on the ground
What are isotherms?
A line connecting to points of equal temperature
What property of water is adhesion?
Sicks to things
What property of water is cohesion?
Sticks to over water
What dose surface tension mean? Type of water property
Holds drop together
What us capillary action?
Water that helps planets
