The Atmosphere(5.1)
What is Meteorology?
What is a meteorologist?
The three main processes of the water cycle.
What are condensation, evaporation, and precipitation?
The weight of air.
What is air pressure?
The lowest pressure place in a cyclone/hurricane.
What is the eye?
The layer of gases held to a planet by its gravity.
What is Atmosphere?
Typical weather an area receives year round.
What is climate?
Another name for the water cycle.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
Where a cumulonimbus cloud obtains its energy.
A storm that begins around a low pressure area.
What is a cyclone?
The lowest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Troposphere?
A climate that is neither extremely hot nor extremely cold.
What is temperate?
The temperature at which cooling air becomes saturated.
What is dew point?
What is a cumulonimbus cloud/thunderhead?
What is warm water?
The invisible layer of gas to protect us from ultra-violet rays.
What is the Ozone layer?
The natural process that maintains a temperature balance in the earth atmosphere by trapping heat and solar radiation.
What is the greenhouse effect?
The form of evaporation through which plants release water into the air.
What is transpiration?
The first stage of lightning.
What is a stepped ladder?
What is 74 mph?
The light display in the sky caused my many tiny collisions.
What is aurora?
The main classification system used for climates.
What is the Köppen Climate Classification System?
Instrument scientists use to measure humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
Explains the applications of a weathervane and an anemometer.
weathervane monitors wind direction: anemometer tracks changes in wind speed.
The system to rank hurricanes and their destructive capabilities.
What is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale?