Definitions
state of the atmosphere at a specific place and time, usually expressed in terms of temperature, air pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction, precipitation, and cloudiness.
What is weather?
This layer of the Atmosphere is where weather occurs
What is the Troposphere?
This layer has the lowest air pressure
What is the Thermosphere?
This air mass creates high pressure?
What is cold air mass?
Three factors for weather.
What are temperature, air pressure, and humidity?
This is the amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
These are the layers of the Atmosphere from lowest to highest
What are Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, and Thermosphere?
This is another name for the Stratosphere
What is the Ozone?
This is made when the water vapor in the air condenses into tiny water droplets.
What is a Cloud?
Meteorologists use these to help predict the weather.
What are weather maps?
This is what the weather is like in a particular region or area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
This protects us from harmful Ultraviolet radiation.
What is the Stratosphere?
These are the two most common gases found throughout all the layers
What are Nitrogen & Oxygen?
This type of front can create severe thunderstorms.
What is a cold front?
A warm front and a cold front are shown on a weather map by these.
What is a red line with half circles or a blue line with triangles?
A storm containing thunder and lightning?
What is a thunder storm?
This layer of the atmosphere protects us from meteors
What is the Mesosphere?
These are the 2 compounds found is the air.
Water vapor and carbon dioxide
It is air moving from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
What is wind?
Increasing Altitude cause this.
Decreasing Temperature
Liquid water falling from the clouds to the ground.
What is precipitation?
How do we determine where the boundaries are for the layers of the atmosphere?
Based on where temperature is increasing or decresing
These factors affect the atmosphere.
air pressure and temperature
Air pressure will decrease when this rises.
What is Warm air?
This occurs as the angle of the sun striking the ground decreases.
Increasing temperature