Layers of the Atmosphere
What is the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth?
What is the Troposphere?
The first step of clouds being formed. Goes from water to water vapor.
What is evaporation?
List all three methods of heat transfer.
What is convection, conduction, and radiation?
Name this front/symbol
What is a Cold front?
What crushed the can in the can crush demo?
What is surrounding air pressure?
What is the third layer of the atmosphere?
What is the Mesosphere?
Second step of clouds being formed. Water vapor cools down and forms water droplets.
What is condensation?
The transfer of heat from one object to another through direct contact?
What is conduction?
Identify this symbol or front.
What is an occluded front?
Is there more air pressure at sea level or on the top of the mountain?
What is sea level?
List all four layers of the atmosphere in order from closest to Earth to farthest away.
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere
Name both clouds of vertical growth.
What is Cumulus and cumulonimbus?
Warm fluids rising and cold fluids sinking is this type of heat transfer
What is convection?
What is this front/symbol?
What is a stationary front?
What determines when a hurricane goes from category 1 to category 2,3,4 or 5?
What is the wind speed?
What is in between the troposphere and stratosphere?
What is the tropopause?
Clouds with the prefix alto are found in the lower, mid, or upper level clouds?
What is middle level?
The transfer of heat through electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
What is this front/symbol?
What is a thunderstorm?
What does the ozone layer do?
Blocks harmful rays from the sun.
Which layer of the atmosphere do things start to burn?
What is the Mesosphere?
Name all of the high level clouds.
What is cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus.
I am boiling a cup of water on the stove top inside of a pot. Two of the three heat transfer methods are taking place. Name the two.
What is conduction and what is convection
?
What is this front/symbol?
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
Where is the ozone layer located?
What is the stratosphere?