Transcript Bell Ringer 8-9-10 What is science? Explain three main skills that scientists use.
Bell Ringer 8-9-10
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What is science?
Explain three main skills that scientists use.
Define the term
scientific inquiry.
Bell Ringer 8-11-10
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What is elevation?
What are the three main types of landforms?
What are the characteristics of a mountain?
Bell Ringer 8-12-10
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What is a map?
How are maps and globes similar? How are they different?
What is a topographic map?
Bell Ringer 8-13-10
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List two things you should do ahead of time to prepare for a lab.
Why is it more difficult to prepare for a lab activity in the field than for one in a laboratory?
Outline in order the next steps you would take to deal with your injury.
Bell Ringer 8-16-10
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Why is curiosity important to a scientist?
What is a variable?
What is a scientific law?
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How do constructive forces shape Earth?
What is a simulation?
What do geologists do?
Bell Ringer 8-18-10
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What is a controlled experiment?
What is a mountain range?
What are five things you should do when you complete a lab experiment?
Bell Ringer 8-19-10
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What three major steps make up the water cycle?
What are Earth’s four main sources of water?
Which of the four main water sources contain salt water? Which contain fresh water?
Bell Ringer 8-20-10
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What bodies of water make up a river system?
How is a watershed related to a river system?
How are lakes different from ponds?
Bell Ringer 8-23-2010
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What are icebergs?
What is a divide?
What is a habitat?
Bell Ringer 8-24-10
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What is a salt marsh?
How could you determine the boundaries of a river system by studying a map of the United States?
What is the major difference between a reservoir and most other types of lakes?
Bell Ringer 8-25-10
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What is a wetland?
What are the three main types of freshwater wetlands?
How are the three major types of freshwater wetlands similar and different?
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Why might a water table rise and fall?
How do geysers form?
How can people obtain water from an aquifer?
Bell Ringer 8-27-10
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How do sprinkler irrigation and drip irrigation differ?
What are three ways to conserve water?
What are pollutants?
Bell Ringer 8-30-10
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Name five ways that people use water.
How is water used in agriculture?
What are three ways to conserve water?
Bell Ringer 8-31-10
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What might happen to the supply of water for agriculture in a region with a rapidly growing city?
Describe the techniques that industries can use to conserve water.
What is a point source of pollution? What is a nonpoint source?
Bell Ringer 9-1-10
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What is a wetland?
What are the three main types of freshwater wetlands?
How are the three major types of freshwater wetlands similar and different?
Bell Ringer 9-2-10
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Why is so little of Earth’s water available for human use?
Can a large river be a tributary? Explain Describe four ways in which lakes can form naturally.
Bell Ringer 9-7-10
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Why have people in ancient and modern times explored the oceans?
Why did the ocean floor remain unexplored until recently?
What is sonar? How did it finally enable scientists to map the ocean floor?
Bell Ringer 9-8-10
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List four sections of the ocean floor?
Identify the three ocean zones?
What conditions exist in the depths of the ocean?
Bell Ringer 9-9-10
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Explain how both a wave’s energy and the water in a wave move.
Why does an ocean buoy bob up and down as a wave passes by?
What is the wavelength of a wave? What is wave height?
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Which have longer wavelengths – waves that are close together or waves that are far apart?
In what direction does a rip current pull a swimmer?
Name two natural landforms that help reduce beach erosion.
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How do wavelength and wave height change as a wave enters shallow water? What is longshore drift, and how does it affect a shoreline?
Explain how building a groin affects longshore drift. What happens to the beach on each side of the groin?
Bell Ringer 9-15-10
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What is a tide?
What force causes tides to occur on Earth’s surface?
What two types of information help scientists predict the times of tides?
Bell Ringer 9-16-10
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Explain why the moon causes a tidal bulge to form on the side of the Earth closest to it.
Why do the heights of tides change during the course of a month?
Describe the positions of the sun, moon, and Earth during a spring tide and during a neap tide.
Bell Ringer 9-17-10
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How can tides be used to generate electricity?
What two types of information help scientists predict the times of tides?
Under what conditions is it practical to harness tidal power?
Bell Ringer 9-20-10
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Why does salt water have greater buoyancy than fresh water?
What are two sources of oxygen in ocean water?
What is a submersible?
Bell Ringer 9-21-10
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What is salinity?
What is the average salinity of ocean water?
Describe one factor that increases the salinity of seawater and one factor that decreases its salinity.
Bell Ringer 9-22-10
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Where would you find the warmest ocean temperature on Earth?
How do carbon dioxide and oxygen levels in the oceans compare to those in the air?
How does the temperature of ocean water affect oxygen levels in the water?
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How do temperature and pressure change as you descend in the ocean?
Where in the water column would you expect to find the following conditions: the highest pressure readings; the densest waters; the warmest temperature.
Why is it helpful to be able to predict when El nino will occur?
Bell Ringer 9-24-10
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What is upwelling?
What is a current?
What causes surface currents to occur? How does surface currents affect the climate of coastal areas?
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What type of climate might a coastal area have if nearby currents are cold?
Explain how deep currents form and move in the ocean.
Compare the causes and effects of deep currents and surface currents.
What causes upwelling?
Why are huge schools of fish usually found in zones of upwelling?
Bell Ringer 9-29-10
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Why do scientists use indirect methods to study the ocean floor?
What is a seamount?
What factors influence the size of a wave?
Why does the height of a wave change as it approaches shore?
Bell Ringer 9-30-10
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How does a rip current form?
Why are there two high tides a day in most places?
What is a spring tide? How does it differ from a neap tide?
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Bell Ringer 10-1-10
Name two properties of ocean water affected by salinity. How does salinity affect each?
What is the Corliolis effect? How does it influence ocean currents?
What is EL Nino? What are some of its effects?
Describe the cause and effects of upwelling.
Bell Ringer 10-4-10
Science Textbook Page 388 Applying Skills Questions 23 – 25 Write the Questions
Bell Ringer 10-5-10
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What is ozone?
What is water vapor?
Explain one way that air quality could be improved.
What is the atmosphere?
What are the four most common gases in dry air?
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Bell Ringer 10-6-10
What are the four most common gases in dry air?
Why are the amounts of gases in the atmosphere usually shown as percentages of dry air?
What are three ways in which the atmosphere is important to life on Earth?
How would the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere change if there were no plants?
What human activity is responsible for the formation of smog and acid rain?
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Bell Ringer 10-7-10
How does the density of air affect air pressure?
What are two common units that are used to measure air pressure?
Why is it hard to breathe at the top of a mountain?
What is air pressure?
How does increasing the density of a gas affect its pressure?
Bell Ringer 10-12-10
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What are two instruments that can be used to measure air pressure?
What units are commonly used to measure air pressure?
How many millibars are equal to 27.23 inches of mercury?
What is altitude?
Bell Ringer 10-13-10
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As altitude increases, how does air pressure change? How does density change?
What changes in air pressure would you expect if you carried a barometer down a mine shift?
Why is the upper stratosphere warmer than the lower stratosphere?
What is the ionosphere?
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List the four main layers of the atmosphere, beginning with the layer closest to Earth’s surface?
What property is used to distinguish the layers of the atmosphere?
Give at least one important characteristic of each of the four main layers of Earth’s atmosphere.
Bell Ringer 10-15-10
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Which color of the visible light has the longest wavelengths?
What is the greenhouse effect?
List three forms of radiation from the sun.
Which form of radiation from the sun has the longest wavelength? The shortest wavelength?
Bell Ringer 10-18-10
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What happen to most of the sunlight that reaches Earth?
Why are sunsets red?
What happens to the energy from the sun that is absorbed by Earth’s surface?
Which temperature scale do scientists use?
Bell Ringer 10-19-10
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How is the air near Earth’s surface heated?
What is temperature?
What instrument is used to measure air temperature?
Name three ways that heat can be transferred.
Bell Ringer 10-20-10
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How do the three types of heat transfer work together to heat the troposphere?
What is the major way that heat is transferred in the troposphere?
Toward what direction does a west wind blow?
Which way do winds turn in the Southern Hemisphere?
Bell Ringer 10-21-10
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What is wind?
How is wind related to air temperature and air pressure?
What are local winds?
What causes local winds?
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What causes local winds?
Compare the conditions that cause a sea breeze with those that cause a land breeze.
Name the three major global wind belts.
Briefly describe the three major global wind belts and where they are located.
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Bell Ringer 10-25-10
Explain why it is difficult to include water vapor in a graph that shows the percentages of various gases in the atmosphere.
Name two ways in which carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere.
Describe the temperature changes that occur as you move upward through the troposphere.
Bell Ringer 10-26-10
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Describe examples of radiation, conduction, and convection from your daily life.
Explain how movements of air at the equator and poles produce global wind patterns.
Why can an aneroid barometer be used to indicate changes in elevation as well as air pressure?
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What instrument measures relative humidity?
What two factors are required for condensation to occur?
What are stratus clouds?
Bell Ringer 10-28-10
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What is fog?
What is humidity?
How are humidity and relative humidity different?
Bell Ringer 10-29-10
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What process is involved in cloud formation?
When are clouds formed by ice crystals instead of drops of liquid water?
What are the three main types of clouds?
Bell Ringer 11-1-10
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Classify each of the following cloud types as low-level, medium-level, or high-level: altocumulus, altostratus, cirrostratus, cirrus, cumulus, fog, nimbostratus, and stratus.
What is sleet?
Name the five common types of precipitation.
Bell Ringer 11-2-10
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Compare and contrast freezing rain and sleet.
How do hailstones become so large in cumulonimbus clouds?
What conditions are necessary for freezing rain to occur?
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Where do continental polar air masses come from?
What type of weather do cold fronts bring?
What is an anticyclone?
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What two characteristics are used to classify air masses?
Classify the four major types of air masses according to whether they are dry or humid.
What type of air mass would form over the northern Atlantic Ocean?
Bell Ringer 11-5-10
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What is a front?
Name the four types of fronts and describe the type of weather each brings.
What type of front would most likely be responsible for several days of rain and clouds?
Bell Ringer 11-8-10
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What is a cyclone?
How does air move in an anticyclone? How does this movement affect the weather?
Compare cyclones and anticyclones. What type of weather is associated with each?
Bell Ringer 11-9-10
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How can lightning be dangerous?
How can snowstorms be dangerous?
What is a thunderstorm?
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What safety precautions should you follow during a thunderstorm?
What weather conditions are most likely to produce tornadoes?
Why do tornadoes occur most often in Tornado Alley?
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Under what conditions does precipation reach the ground as snow?
What should you do if you are caught in a snowstorm?
What is a hurricane?
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How do hurricanes form?
What do hurricanes weaken as they pass over land?
What is a meteorologist?
Bell Ringer 11-15-10
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What is the “butterfly effect”?
What tools do meteorologists rely on to forecast the weather?
What is the symbol for a cold front on a weather map?
Bell Ringer 11-16-10
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Why do clouds usually form high in the air instead of near Earth’s surface?
Describe sleet, hail, and snow in terms of how each one forms.
Describe how wind patterns affect the movement of air masses in North America.
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How does a cold front form?
Describe two situations in which floods can occur.
What happens to a hurricane when it moves onto land? Why?
Bell Ringer 11-18-10
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A psychrometer gives the same reading on both thermometers. What is the relative humidity?
How do differences in air density influence the movement of air along cold and warm fronts?
Compare thunderstorms and tornadoes. How are they similar? How are they different?
Bell Ringer 11-19-10
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If air pressure is decreasing, what kind of weather is likely to occur?
Would you expect hurricanes to form over the oceans off the northeast or northwest coasts of the United States? Explain Why can’t meteorologists accurately forecast the weather a month in advance?
Bell Ringer 11-29-10
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What effect do oceans have on the temperatures of nearby land areas?
Why does precipitation fall mainly on the windward sides of mountains?
In June, what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?
Bell Ringer 11-30-10
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Name four factors that affect temperature.
How does temperature vary in Earth’s temperature zones?
List three factors that affect precipitation .
Bell Ringer 12-1-10
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How do prevailing winds affect the amount of precipitation an area receives?
What causes the seasons?
Describe how the seasons are related to Earth’s orbit around the sun.
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What parts of the United States have tropical rainy climates?
What is a desert?
What region of the United States has a humid subtropical climate?
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Which area of the United States has a subarctic climate?
What type of vegetation is found on the tundra?
What two major factors are used to classify climates?
Bell Ringer 12-6-10
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What other factor did Koppen use in classifying climates?
What are the six main climate regions?
How is a tropical wet climate similar to a tropical wet-and-dry climate? How are they different?
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Bell Ringer 12-7-10
In what climate region would you find plains covered with short grasses and small bushes? Explain.
Why do marine west coast climates have abundant precipitation?
Which place would have more severe winters – central Russia or the west coast of France? Why?
Bell Ringer 12-8-10
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Place the following climates in order from coldest to warmest: tundra, subartic, humid continental, ice cap.
How could a forest grow on a mountain that is surrounded by a desert?
What are two ways scientists study ancient climates?
Bell Ringer 12-9-10
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Why were the oceans lower during the ice ages than they are now?
What was Pangaea?
What principle do scientists follow in studying ancient climates?
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What types of evidence do scientists gather to study changes in climate?
What is a glacier?
What occurs during an ice age?
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What are four factors that could be responsible for changing Earth’s climate?
How often does El Nino typically occur?
What are three possible effects of global warming?
Bell Ringer 12-14-10
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What are CFCs?
What are two events that can cause short-term climate change?
Describe the changes that occur in the Pacific Ocean and the atmosphere above during El Nino.