SPHERES
This sphere contains air.
What is the atmosphere?
The number of layers in Earth's atmosphere.
What is five layers?
Increase in altitude results in ..............
lower air pressure.
Gases that hold heat in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is the green house effect?
How hot or cold it is outside?
What is the weather?
This sphere has glaciers.
What is the Hydrosphere?
The first layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Troposhere?
When hiking up a mountain, the altitude gets ___________.
higher
Rain, sleet, snow is called........
What is precipitation?
Minute by minute changes in how hot or cold the temperature is.
What is weather?
This sphere has living things in it.
What is the Biosphere?
The last layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Exosphere?
The amount of air that is pressing against an object is called..
What is air pressure?
A severe weather condition where there is too much water, where lots of damage happen.
What is a flood?
Water from the sky is called. ......
What is rain?
This sphere has volcanoes in it.
What is the Geosphere?
This is where airplanes fly.
What is the Stratosphere?
The higher the altitude, the harder/easier it is to breathe.
harder
Very dry, no rain, and hot weather found in a desert.
What is a drought?
In Africa, the average temperature is 98 degrees. Is this weather or climate?
What is climate?
This sphere contains the climate.
What is the Geosphere?
This is where the space station is.
What is the Thermosphere?
The higher the air pressure, the _________ (higher/lower) the altitude goes.
lower
Explain how the weather would be if we didn't have the greenhouse effect?
-very cold
- all of the warm air would escape the Earth's atmosphere.
When air warms and rises, what happens to cold air?
What is cold air sinking?