The water cycle
The series of natural processes by which water continually moves throughout the hydrosphere.
True or false: Nimbostratus clouds are white and puffy.
False.
What layer of the atmosphere does weather happen in?
Troposphere.
What is climate?
Long term average weather conditions that occur in a particular region.
Both organisms benefit.
Mutualism
The proess by which a gas changes to a liquid.
Condensation
True or false: Warm air can hold more vapor than cold air.
True.
Layer of the atmosphere where the ozone layer is located?
Stratosphere.
What is weather?
Short term conditions at a certain place at a certain time.
Energy in motion.
Kinetic energy.
The process of a liquid changing to a gas at the surface of the liquid.
Evaporation
Thin wispy cloudn and the most common of the high clouds.
Cirrus
This layer of the atmosphere is very hot and the International Space Station (ISS) is located here.
Thermosphere.
What drives the water cycle?
The Sun or radiation.
Two organisms fighting for the same resources.
Competition
Water, in liquid or solid form, that falls from the atmosphere.
Precipitation
True or false: Fog, humidity, mist, dew are all forms of precipitation?
False
Meteors burn up here.
Mesosphere.
Who predicts the weather?
Meterologist.
Exosphere.
What are 3 forms of water?
Solid, liquid, and water
Clouds are classified by what two factors?
Height and shape.
This is the thinnest, but largest layer of the atmosphere with a very cold temperature.
Large body of air with the same temperature and moisture.
Air mass.
This organism makes it's own food.
Producer.