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Atmosphere
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Water Cycle
Vocabulary
100
Surface Currents are powered by ______?
Wind
100
What layer of our Atmosphere contains the Ozone Layer?
Stratosphere
100
What covers the earth, and is a thin layer of mixed gases that make up the air we breathe?
Atmosphere
100
Measures the temperature of the air or water.
Thermometer
100
Water vapor changes into droplets to form clouds.
Condensation
100
A ________ is a rapidly whirling, funnel shaped cloud that reaches down from a cloud to touch Earth’s surface.
Tornado
200
Name the 5 major Oceans?
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, Southern
200
What is the average weather over many years even a decade.
Climate
200
What Layer of our atmosphere does all weather occur in?
Troposphere
200
Measures the direction of wind.
Weather vane
200
Droplets fall down to earth in the form of snow, sleet, hail and rain, and then the process repeats.
Precipitation
200
an underwater mountain formed from an extinct volcano
Seamount
300
The Mid Ocean Ridge (chain of undersea mountains) was formed by _________ (type of plate boundary)
Divergent
300
What are the 4 types of fronts?
Cold Fronts.
Warm Fronts.
Stationary Fronts.
Occluded Fronts.
300
Name the 5 layers of the atmosphere in oder from closest to the earth up.
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Exosphere
300
Measures rain fell in a certain period of time
Rain gauge
300
The process by which plants perspire and release moisture into the atmosphere from their leaves in the form of water vapor.
Transpiration
300
heat transfer that occurs as a fluid’s density changes with temperature; often forms a circular current
Convection
400
Major commercial fishing areas are usually located in areas?
Areas of Upwelling
400
The _______ Planets have Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide while the _____ Planets have Helium and Hydrogen
Inner, Outer
400
The atmosphere is made up of what% Nitrogen and what% Oxygen?
78% Nitrogen
21% Oxygen
400
A scientist that predicts the forecast.
Meteorologist
400
Sublimation is a process where ice directly converts into water vapors without converting into liquid water. This phenomenon accelerates when the temperature is ___?
Low (or when pressure is high)
400
___________ are narrow belts of high speed winds that blow in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere
jet streams
500
The ages of the seafloor are youngest towards the center of the oceans and oldest toward the ocean boundaries, this is evidence of ________.
Seafloor Spreading
500
What are the 4 types of air masses?
Maritime Tropical
Maritime Polar
Continental Tropical
Continental Polar
500
The Ionosphere is known for causing what phenomena?
aurora borealis (Northern Lights)
500
Measures the air pressure around us
Barometer
500
Name all 7 steps of the water cycle
Evaporation.
Condensation.
Sublimation.
Precipitation.
ranspiration.
Runoff.
Infiltration
500
area of seabed around a continent that is shallow compared to other areas of the ocean
continental shelf