Water Cycle
The sun changes the state of water from a liquid to a gas in what process?
Evaporation
What powers the water cycle?
The day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere, can change in a matter of a few hours and reported as a forecast
What is Weather?
This is the layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth where we live and weather happens.
What is the Troposphere?
Water turning from vapor into rain droplets is an example of what process?
condensation
List the steps of the water cycle.
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection
The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time, describes years worth of data, usually describes seasons, reported as averages
What is climate
This layer protects us from harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays with its ozone.
What is the Stratosphere?
plant leaves losing water
transpiration
Rain, sleet, snow and hail are examples of what process?
precipitation
What is the movement of air caused by differences in air pressure (warm air rises and cool air sinks)?
Wind
This is the coldest layer of the atmosphere, where meteors burn up.
What is the Mesosphere?
What is humidity?
The amount of water vapor in the air/atmosphere
Which of the following best describes what clouds are made of?
A. fog that has risen from the ground
B. large amounts of water that has evaporated
C. water vapor that has condensed into droplets
D. rain or snow that has been pushed together by wind
C. water vapor that has condensed into droplets
What is the Hydrosphere?
All of Earth's Water (Oceans, Lakes, Rivers and Ice)
This layer has very thin air, is the hottest and is where the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) occur.
What is the Thermosphere
What processes put water vapor into the atmosphere? (Hint: There are two)
evaporation, transpiration
This force pulls rain from the clouds, makes rivers flow downhill, and moves water into the ground.
What is gravity
What are three factors that affect climate?
Distance from the equator, nearness to a large body of water, and elevation
This is the outermost layer of the atmosphere, blending into outer space.
What is the Exosphere