What surrounds the Earth?
The atmosphere
What do we call the force of the atmosphere on its surroundings?
Air pressure
What is meteorology?
The study of the Earth's atmosphere to explain and forecast weather conditions.
Name the three parts of the water cycle.
Evaporation, Condensation and Precipitation
What does the atmosphere contain and do for us?
Feathery or wispy clouds found at high altitudes.
Cirrus
What type of front happens when a cold and warm front stop together and hardly move?
Stationary Front
A high pressure system generally brings what kind of weather?
Sunny or mostly sunny weather.
What layer of the atmosphere does Ozone exist in?
Stratosphere
Relatively thin, flat sheets, in the lower levels of the atmosphere.
Stratus
When conditions occur in the atmosphere on a day-to-day basis we call this...
Weather
What does ozone do?
It absorbs the Sun's ultraviolet radiation.
What layer of the atmosphere do we live and breath in?
Troposphere
Cumulus
What kind of front happens when a cold front pushes the warm air away and overtakes a warm front?
Occluded front
This type of system generally brings stormy weather.
Low pressure system
Name all five layers of the Earth's atmosphere.
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
This is caused when gases such as CO2 and H2O trap radiation and send it back to Earth's surface.
The Greenhouse Effect
This is the average of weather condition of a region throughout the year, over a series of years.
Climate
Wind is also known as...
Air in motion