Atmosphere
The most abundant gas in the atmosphere is...
What is Nitrogen?
__________ is the movement of Earth on its axis and ___________ is the movement of Earth around the Sun.
What is Rotation and Revolution?
A body of air in motion.
What is Wind?
The movement of water as is circulates between Earth's surface and its Atmosphere.
What is the Water Cycle?
The type of cloud that is a sign of severe weather phenomena such as tornadoes.
What is Cumulonimbus?
Absorbs energy from the sun, recycles water and other chemicals, and works with electrical and magnetic forces to protect life on Earth...
What is the Atmosphere?
Name the days on which there are equal amounts of daylight and darkness.
What are the Vernal Equinox and Autumnal Equinox?
Scale used for estimating wind speed over land or sea
What is the Beaufort Scale?
_________ is the temperature at which the air can no longer hold any more water.
What is Dew Point?
*Double points if you can tell us what word is used to describe it when the air is holding so much water that it can't hold any more.
The most dangerous part of a tornado is...
What is Wind speed?
Name the 4 layers of the Atmosphere in order from bottom to top.
What is the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, and Thermosphere?
A strong wind that develops between 30,000 and 50,000 feet and winds it way across the US, typically from west to east. Pilots may use it or avoid it depending on their flight plan.
What is a Jet Stream?
What is a Microburst?
Without __________ in the air, weather could not exist.
What is Moisture (or Water)?
The three main stages of a thunderstorm.
What are Building, Maturing, and Dissipating?
*Double points if you can tell us why Thunderstorms are dangerous to pilots.
The fairly constant temperature decrease that occurs as you move higher by every 1,000ft of altitude.
What is the lapse rate?
Name the three global winds.
What are the Trade winds, Prevailing westerlies, and Polar easterlies?
*Double Points if you can tell us why Trade winds are called trade winds*
The down-force on all things on Earth created by the weight of the gases in the air around them.
What is Atmospheric Pressure?
Name the three basic cloud forms.
What are Cumulus, Stratus, and Cirrus?
The amount of Categories for classification of a hurricane and classification did Hurricane Dorian reached before it stalled near the Bahamas (Current Events - Aug 28th-Now)
What are 5 total Categories and Hurricane Dorian at a Cat 5 (most intense)?
The two regions of atmosphere that are named after physical or chemical processes that occur within them.
What are the ozonosphere and the ionosphere?
The tendency for objects in the Northern Hemisphere to move right of their intended location based on deflection caused by Earth's counterclockwise rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Name the Four types of heat transfer.
What is Conduction, Convection, Advection, and Radiation?
*Double points if you can tell us what each one is* One try per team only
Starting with a lake, describe the progression of the water cycle.
What is Evaporation from lake to air, Condensation from air to clouds, and Precipitation from clouds to lake via rain?
Typically rotating storms move in this direction.
What is counterclockwise?
*Double points if you can tell us why