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46 Cards in this Set
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What clouds are towering clouds with anvil heads that bring thunderstorms? cumulonimbus nimbostratus cirrocumulus cirrus |
Cumulonimbus |
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Which type of high altitude cloud could be described as 'thin and wispy'? cirrus stratus nimbostratus cumulus |
Cirrus |
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What is a low, dense cloud layer that sometimes brings light rain or snow? cumulus nimbus cirrus stratus |
Stratus |
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Fish scale clouds, sometimes called Mackerel sky, are what type of cloud? cirrocumulus nimbostratus cirronimbus altocumulus |
Cirrocumulus |
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Clouds consist of:
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Water droplets low Ice crystals high |
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The outermost layer of the Earth, where plate movement occurs, is called the: lithosphere athenosphere ocean floor all of these |
Lithosphere |
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About how fast (at what rate) do the Earth's plates move each year? 2 to 10 centimeters 2 to 10 miles 2 to 10 meters 2 to 10 millimeters |
2 to 10 centimeters |
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The Earth's continents were once connected in one giant continent called Pangaea Eurasia Indo-Australia Pacifica |
Pangea |
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Places where plates crash or crunch together are called convergent boundaries divergent boundaries transform boundaries tectonic boundaries |
Convergent |
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Places where plates are separating or coming apart are called: divergent boundaries convergent boundaries transform boundaries tectonic boundaries |
Divergent |
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Places where plates slide past one another care called: transform boundaries divergent boundaries convergent boundaries tectonic boundaries |
Transform |
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Which type of crust, oceanic or continental is usually the most dense? |
Oceanic |
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Temperature is a measure of the average _____ energy of the particles in the object |
Kinetic |
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A flask of cold water is placed in a beaker of hot water. Which substance, the hot water or the cold water, will be absorbing heat energy? |
Cold water |
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In which phase of matter do the molecules that make up the substance have the least motion? Gas Solid Liquid Steam |
Solid |
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Which phase change occurs at the lowest temperature? |
Freezing |
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The temperature at which water in the form of ice is converted to liquid is called the: freezing point sublimation point melting point boiling point |
Melting |
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As a liquid begins reach its boiling point, the temperature is: more information is needed to determine this staying the same decreasing increasing |
Increases |
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Water melts and freezes at the same temperature. |
True |
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If a substance is observed to be bubbly and steamy, what phase change is most likely occurring? condensation sublimation freezing evaporation |
Evaporation |
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Liquid water cannot reach temperature over 100 degrees C. |
True |
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Which of the following is an example of a phase change? heating an iron bar mixing salt and sugar painting a wagon ice melting |
I've melting |
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As a substance is cooled down, the atoms and molecules undergo a: chemical change as they move slower physical change as they move slower physical change as they move faster chemical change as they move faster |
Physical change..faster |
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When gaseous water converts to its liquid form due to contact with cooler surfaces, occurs. |
Condensation |
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As a solid is heated, its temperature increases from 10 C to 25 C, where the temperature remains steady for about 5 minutes. The temperature further increases until 45 C is reached, at which point no further increase in temperature is observed. Based on this information, what conclusion can be drawn about the substance? |
Boiling point at 45 |
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Which are puffy cloud forms having a flat base |
Stratocumulus |
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Clouds make up a dark, thick, flat layer |
Nimbostratus |
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Clouds make up a dark, thick, flat layer |
Nimbostratus |
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Which word means a dense cloud layer that sometimes brings light rain or snow? |
Nimbus |
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Clouds make up a dark, thick, flat layer |
Nimbostratus |
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Which word means a dense cloud layer that sometimes brings light rain or snow? |
Nimbus |
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Which of the following can be described as a cloud on the ground? |
Fog |
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The observation that the continents fit together like puzzle pieces, and may once have been connected? |
Plate tectonics |
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The outermost layer of the earth |
Litho |
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The place where two plates meet |
Plate boundary |
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The San andres |
Transform |
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What clouds are towering clouds with anvil |
Cumulonimbus |
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Puffy clouds |
Stratosphere |
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Clouds dark and thick |
Nimbo |
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What type of high altitude cloud |
Cirrus |
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Word means a dense cloud layer |
Nimbus |
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Fish scale clouds |
Cirrocumulus |
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Clouds produced from the exhaust of airplanes in the sky |
Contrails |
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Clouds produced from the exhaust of airplanes in the sky |
Contrails |
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Clouds consist of |
Water droplets at low altitude and ice crystals at high altitude |
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Clouds occur |
Expansión when it rise |
