Science
The meaning of the word "Science"
What is, "to know"?
The Study of the Weather & Atmosphere.
What is Meteorology?
These clouds are fluffy and cloud shaped and usually are found at lower levels of the Troposphere.
What are some traits of Cumulus clouds?
Blue Triangles along a line represent this type of weather Front.
What symbol represents a Cold Front's on a weather map?
The scientist that discovered and described the effects of Earth's rotation on Fluid dynamics in the Atmosphere and Oceans.
Who is Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis?
Observations with Numbers
What are Quantitative Observations?
The atmospheric layer that is closest to the Earth's surface.
What is the Troposphere?
The Atmospheric Layer where most clouds are found.
What is the Troposphere?
This type of front forms when a cold air mass meets and replaces a warm air mass.
What is a Cold Front?
This force is the main cause of Tides on Earth.
The Gravitational Pull of the Moon.
Observations of Traits or Qualities
What are Qualitative Observations?
The effect that causes moving air and water to turn and twist due to Earth's Rotation?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Thin, wispy clouds found high in the sky.
What are Cirrus Clouds?
The term for the boundary where two different air masses meet.
What is a "Front"?
The movement of water in the ocean in a certain direction.
What is an Ocean Current?
A tool Scientists use to measure heat
What is a Thermometer?
The main difference between a High Pressure System and a Low Pressure System.
What is: High pressure brings clear skies, Low Pressure brings clouds and precipitation?
The main causes of wind currents on Earth?
What is unequal heating and the rotation of the earth?
This Type of Front occurs when a warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass.
What is a Warm Front?
What is the Mesosphere?
Science is a worldview based on these 5 things.
What are the Five Senses?
What is a Barometer?
The name of clouds that form in flat layers and often cover the whole sky.
What are Stratus Clouds?
The name of a Front that does not move and remains in the same place for a period of time.
What is a Stationary Front?
This is the outermost layer of the Atmosphere.
What is the Exosphere?