Atmosphere
Weather Facts
Air masses and fronts
Wind
Severe weather
100

Living things are found here?

What is troposphere?

100

Humidity is the amount of this in the air.

What is water or moisture?

100
Air with similar temperature and humidity.

What is an air mass?

100
This allows planes to fly fast.

What is a jet stream?

100

What kind of energy is released with lightning. 

What is static energy?

200

The coldest level of the atmosphere?

What is the mesosphere?

200

When air rises, water vapour in the air will do this.

What is condense?

200

Kind of weather you have with a high pressure air mass.

What is cold and dry?

200

The usual wind in a place.

What is a prevailing wind?

200

What hurricanes are called in the Pacific Ocean.

What is "typhoon"?

300

This is found in the stratosphere and protects us from harmful UV rays.

What is the ozone layer?

300

The amount of water vapour in the air compared to how much it can hold in total.

What is relative humidity?

300

Weather with a low pressure air mass.

What is cloudy?

300

The earth's rotation causes this - which causes wind to deflect to the side. 

What is the Coriolis effect?

300

Tornadoes can travel this fast.

What is 400 km/hour?

400

This is where planes fly?

What is stratosphere?

400

This is used to measure atmospheric pressure.

What is a barometer?

400

This causes rain and storms.

What is a weather front?

400

What can slow down a local wind.

Friction - e.g., a forest or mountain.
400

Cyclones take place in this part of the world.

What are the tropics/ equator?

500

You will find the aurora borealis here.

What is thermosphere?

500
The three factors that influence atmospheric pressure.

What is altitude, temperature and humidity?

500

What kind of energy is released when air masses collide?

What is thermal energy?

500

In what direction a northeasterly blows.

What is to the southwest?

500

Tornadoes form this shape (begins with letter "f"). 

What is a "funnel"?

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