Air
What is air?
What is a mixture of gases
This last layer of the atmosphere
What is the Exosphere
What measure temperature
What is a thermometer
What is the process called when water from oceans, lakes, or rivers turns into water vapor?
What is evaporation?
True or False: Most of Earth’s fresh water is found in rivers and lakes.
What is false? (Most is in glaciers or underground.)
What do plants give off into the air during photosynthesis?
What is oxygen?
This layer is where weather occurs
What is the troposphere
When we measure wind direction, we might use what.
What is a wind vane
This is where the water cycle gets its energy from.
What is the sun.
Condensation is when a gas changes to a what?
What is a liquid
What do we call the thin layer of gases that surrounds Earth?
What is the atmosphere?
This is the thickest layer of the atmosphere
Thermosphere
A hygrometer is used to measure what weather property?
What is humidity
What does the sun's energy do to water
It causes it to evaporate
What are the types of precipitation?
What are rain, snow, hail, sleet
Air takes up space and has this property that allows it to push on things, like when you blow up a balloon.
What is air pressure?
The stratosphere has a layer of what that absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the sun
What is ozone
You use this tool to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer
What do we call it when water vapor cools and changes back into liquid water?
What is condensation?
What percentage of Earths water is salt water?
What is 97%
What is the most common gas found in Earth’s air?
What is nitrogen?
Name all five of the layers of the atmosphere
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
This weather tool is used to measure wind speed
What is an anemometer
What is the movement of water through the environment in a continuous cycle called?
What is the water cycle?
All of the water on , in , and around our planet is called what?
What is the hydrosphere