Scientists
Basics
Water
Up in the Air
Wild Card
100
Scientists who study the earth's climates
What is a climatologist?
100
The current state of the atmosphere.
What is weather?
100
Water in gas form.
What is water vapor?
100
When the wind blows from one direction more than another.
What is prevailing wind?
100
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
200
Scientists who study the earth's atmosphere
What is an atmospheric scientist?
200
The average weather in a place over a long period of time
What is climate?
200
Water below the earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
200
When cold air moves in and replaces warm air.
What is a cold front.
200
How much of the earth's water is freshwater?
What is 3 %?
300
Scientists who study the earth's weather
What is a meteorologist?
300
The air that surrounds the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
300
When liquid water becomes water vapor.
What is evaporation?
300
When warm air moves in and replaces cold air.
What is a cold front?
300
The earth is covered by this much water.
What is 66%
400
Scientists who study the the distribution and movement of the earth's water
What is a hydrologist?
400
Where most of the earth's weather occurs.
What is the troposhere?
400
When water vapor becomes liquid water.
What is condensation?
400
Large collections of water in the form of tiny droplets of liquid water.
What are clouds?
400
Channel 9's meteorologist.
Who is Tom Skilling?
500
Scientists who study plants and plant systems.
What is a botanist?
500
A weather prediction over the next several days.
What is a weather forecast?
500
The amount of salt dissolved in water.
What is salinity?
500
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
500
Before 2011's big snowstorm, the last biggest snowstorm in Chicago took place in.
What is 1963?
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