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| What is the coriolis effect? |
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| An affect that effects wind direction and is directed at right angles of airflow. It is also affected by wind speed and is strongest at the poles. |
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| What are the 4 major pathways in the water cycle? |
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| evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration. |
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| liquid, snow, rain, ice etc |
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| Movement of water from the plants to the atmosphere. |
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| What is the order of the water cycle? |
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| Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration |
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| plants, things that make their own food |
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| What are Primary consumers? |
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| things that eat producers (the plants.) known as herbivores. |
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| What are secondary consumers? |
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| carnivores and omnivores (things that eat both plants and animals.) |
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| What are third level consumers? |
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| Detrivores ( decomposers.) |
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| What are the four levels of the atmosphere? |
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| Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesopsphere, Thermosphere. |
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| What is the troposphere like? |
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| It is where we live, all weather occurs here, main source of energy is radiation. |
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| What is the stratosphere like? |
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| The ozone absorbs radiation which protects us from lethal doses of it. |
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| What is the temperature in the mesosphere like? |
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| Temperatures drop to their lowest values there. |
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| What is the thermosphere like? |
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| It absorbs short wave high energy solar radiation. |
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| What is temperature inversion? |
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| As you increase in altitude, temperature decreases. |
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| What is the Big Band Theory? |
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| the theory that the universe formed from a collossal expolosion. |
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| What happened in the big bang? |
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| There was an origin for the Big Bang, it sent out electromagnetic waves into the universe, the wave stretched out and had low energy. |
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