Name the three things that make up the atmosphere.
What is Dust, Water Vapor and Gases.
100
Define Weather
What is Refers to the state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place.
100
Continental mean that the air mass comes from ______________ and Maritime means the air mass comes from ____________________.
What is Land and water.
100
Scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it.
What are meteorologists?
100
Type of cloud found at high altitudes and made of ice crystals.
What is cirrus?
200
Name the most abundant gas in the atmophere.
What is Nitrogen
200
Thin layer of gases that surround the Earth
What is the atmosphere?
200
1. A Continental Polar air masses would come from where?
2. What type of weather would it bring (temp and moisture)
What is 1. Land and the Ploes
2. Cold and dry weather
200
Dew point is the temperature at which this occurs.
What is condensation?
200
Type of cloud found at low altitudes and forms in flat layers that cover most of the sky.
What is stratus?
300
What happens to atmospheric pressure as you go higher in the atmosphere?
What is The atmospheric pressure decreases.
300
1. Explain why wind occurs.
2. Name two ways to produce HIGH winds.
What is
1. When a high pressure air mass moves toward a low pressure air mass.
2. Large difference in pressure and small distance between the two air masses.
300
What is the difference in a Maritime Tropical and Continental Polar.
What is A MT is warm and moist and a CP is Cold and dry.
300
Weather instrument used to measure the average amount of energy of motion in the molecules of a substance.
What is a thermometer?
300
Type of weather front that is created when a warm air mass collides with a cold air mass and pushes against each other so that neither mass can move forward.
What is a stationary front?
400
Layer of the atmosphere that protects you from the sun's harmful rays.
What is the ozone layer?
400
Name the parts of the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection/runoff?
400
Name the 4 main air masses
What is continental, polar, maritime, tropical?
400
Not a unit used to measure temperature:
Kelvin
Fahrenheit
Celsius
Newton
What is Newton?
400
The mixture of gaseous elements and compounds in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is air?
500
1. Name the layers of the atmosphere from the ground up.
2. What layer does weather occur in?
What is
1. Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere and Exosphere.
2. Troposphere
500
What will happen to the weather in an area if it is affected by a high pressure system.
What is The sky will be clear but the temperatures will be cooler.
500
The measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
500
Type of cloud where thunderstorms and tornadoes form.
What is cumulonimbus?
500
Type of weather associated with a low pressure zone.