Atmosphere
Clouds
Weather
Weather also
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What surrounds the Earth?

The atmosphere

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What do we call the force of the atmosphere on its surroundings?

Air pressure

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What is meteorology?

The study of the Earth's atmosphere to explain and forecast weather conditions.

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Name the three parts of the water cycle.

Evaporation, Condensation and Precipitation

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What does the atmosphere contain and do for us?

Gases that are vital to living things and it protects us from harmful radiation given off by the Sun.
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Feathery or wispy clouds found at high altitudes.

Cirrus

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What type of front happens when a cold and warm front stop together and hardly move?

Stationary Front

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A high pressure system generally brings what kind of weather?

Sunny or mostly sunny weather.

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What layer of the atmosphere does Ozone exist in?

Stratosphere

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Relatively thin, flat sheets, in the lower levels of the atmosphere.

Stratus

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When conditions occur in the atmosphere on a day-to-day basis we call this...

Weather

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What does ozone do?

It absorbs the Sun's ultraviolet radiation.

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What layer of the atmosphere do we live and breath in?

Troposphere

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Clouds that have a flattened base and a puffed rounded top.

Cumulus

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What kind of front happens when a cold front pushes the warm air away and overtakes a warm front?

Occluded front

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This type of system generally brings stormy weather.

Low pressure system

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Name all five layers of the Earth's atmosphere.

Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere

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This is caused when gases such as CO2 and H2O trap radiation and send it back to Earth's surface.

The Greenhouse Effect

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This is the average of weather condition of a region throughout the year, over a series of years.

Climate

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Wind is also known as...

Air in motion

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