Earth Science

What provides the energy that causes the water cycle to happen?

• Tectonic plate movement

• Earth's core

• Gravity

• The sun

Evaporation, Condensation, and precipitation are part of

• transpiration

• water cycle

• atmosphere

• geosphere

What part of the water cycle has to occur before condensation can happen

• Percolation

• Interception

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

What causes precipitation to fall to Earth?

• Gravity

• Wind Currents

• Sun's Energy

• Clouds

what form of energy transfer is responsible for global winds and ocean currents?

• Convection

• Radiation

• Conduction

• Contraction

Global winds and ocean currents in an area of Earth affect its

• conduction and convection

• weather and climate

• radiation

• population

Average weather conditions in certain place over many years

• Weather

• Global Warming

• Climate

• Greenhouse Effect

Flow of heat energy goes from ____ temperature to ___ temperature

• positive, negative

• negative, postive

• high, low

• low, high

Flow of heat transfer by electromagnetic waves

• Conduction

• Radiation

• Convection

• Contraction

Flow of heat energy from solid object to another object by direct contact

• Convection

• Conduction

• Contraction

• Radiation