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What is meteorology?
The study of weather
What is the mesopause?
The upper end of the mesosphere
When air warms the air molecules move _____ and air pressure _____
faster
increases
What are white, fluffy clouds?
Cumulus
The coastlines of the continents are bordered by a gently sloping underwater plain called:
The Continental Shelf
What is precipitation?
Moisture falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, or hail.
What is the heterosphere?
One of 2 major regions in the atmosphere characterized by several different layers of gases.
What are jet streams?
Currents of air high in the troposphere
What are high, feathery clouds?
Cirrus
Clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere
Counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere
What is weather?
A day-to-day state of the atmosphere
What is the mesosphere?
The boundary between the homesphere and the heterosphere
What does falling pressure mean?
Bad weather is going to occur.
What is a front?
When a warm mass of air bumps into a cold mass of air.
How is a tsunami made?
Result of an underwater earthquake or volcanic explosion.
What is air pressure?
A force exerted onto a surface by the weight of air molecules.
What is the tropopause?
The upper end of the troposphere
What is used to measure air pressure?
Barameter
What happens in a cold front?
The cold air goes down and pushes the warm air upward.
What is the bottom of the ocean floor called?
Abyssal Plain
What is climate?
Atmospheric conditions over the long periods of time.
What is the turbopause?
The boundary between the heterosphere and the homosphere.
What happens when air pressure increases?
Good weather is coming
What is an occluded front? What shape is it?
When 3 air masses with different temperatures (warm, cold, colder) meet. It is a Y shape.
Explain surf
When a coral reef or rise in the ocean floor interrupts the circular wave motions, the other wave molecules build up behind until the circle breaks apart, creating breaking waves.