Atmosphere
Wind
Water Cycle
Climate
Potpouri
100
The layer of atmosphere where weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
100
This type of current, also found in the magma of Earth's mantle, is partly responsible for wind.
What are convection currents?
100
The sun causes oceans, lakes, and rivers to do this.
What is evaporate?
100
Today it is cold, cloudy, and snowing. This is an example of our current _________.
What is weather?
100
Scientists believe too much of this in our atmosphere is causing the planet to heat up.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
200
This is where the ozone layer exists.
What is the stratosphere?
200
Combined with the heating and cooling of air, this is what causes wind to occur.
What is the Earth's rotation?
200
When warm, moist air runs into cooler air, this happens first.
What is condensation?
200
Colorado has warm summers and cold winters with not a lot of precipitation on average. This describes our _________.
What is climate?
200
Like all matter, gases are made up of these tiny, invisible particles.
What are molecules?
300
Our atmosphere holds in some of the Earth's heat. This effect has been compared to that of a what?
What is a greenhouse?
300
Explain a sea breeze.
What is the land heating before the ocean, the air above the land rising and being replaced by cooler ocean air?
300
It's called this when plants give off water vapor through their stomata.
What is transpiration?
300
This is why areas around the equator are warm year round.
What is the sun's heat hits those areas directly?
300
This is why we don't feel air pressure.
What is the pressure inside our bodies is similar to the air pressure outside our bodies?
400
Earth's atmosphere is made up of mostly these two gases.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
400
In the mountains in the morning, wind usually travels up the slopes because of this.
What is the sun heating the mountain tops first, causing that air to warm and rise eventually to be replaced by cooler valley air?
400
To form clouds, water molecules attach to these.
What are dust particles?
400
These are the three main climate zones.
What are the tropical, temperate, and polar zones?
400
At sea level, air pressure is _______ compared to in the mountains. Humid air has _______ air pressure than dry air.
What are higher and less?
500
Three benefits our atmosphere provides for life on Earth.
What are the air we breath, the weather we experience, protection from harmful radiation, and containing heat?
500
This device measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
This is why clouds sometimes create precipitation in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
What is the water droplets get too big and gravity takes over?
500
This is what makes deserts...well deserts.
What is a lack of precipitation...dryness?
500
Three things we can do to slow down climate change or global warming.
What turn off lights when not in use, drive our cars only when necessary, and use alternative sources of energy such as wind or solar?
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