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What is a thin blanket of gas that surrounds the earth, provides the air we breathe, and prevents extreme weather differences
The atmosphere
What is the measurment above sea level?
Altitude
TRIPLE POINTS: What is are giant waves caused by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions under the sea.
Tsunami
What is a thunderstorm?
• Occurs when a large, warm air
mass rises above a cold air mass
• Has lightning and thunder
What is a hurricane
• Storm with spiraling winds that
forms over the ocean
• Produces damaging winds and
storm surge when it comes on land
DOUBLE POINTS: What are the gases that make up the atmosphere?
Nitrogen, Oxygen, and other gases, including carbon dioxide
What is the condition of the atmosphere at any moment of time?
Weather
What occur in large, circular belts around the earth?
A:Global wind
B:Oxygem
C:Local wind
A, global winds
DOUBLE POINTS: What are all the types of clouds
• Cumulonimbus
• Cumulus
• Cirrus
• Stratus
• Nimbostratus
What is a Weather forecast?
Prediction of future weather
conditions
What is a mixture of Nitrogen, and other gases in the atmosphere?
A: Wind
B:Air
B, Air
What is Moving air?
Wind
What is influenced by temperatures in a small area or place?
A: Water
B: Local winds
B, Local winds
What is lightning?
A: Type of static electricity
B: Not a type of static electricity
A
TRIPLE POINTS: Name all of the layers of the atmosphere;
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere
TRIPLE POINTS: What is the percentage of the oxygen, Nitrogen, and other gases including carbon dioxide?
Carbon dioxide: 1%, Oxygen: 21%, and Nitrogen: 78%
What is a large body of air that has about the same temperature and moisture
Air Mass
What is humidity?
A: Not
Water vapor in the atmosphere and
Affected by temperature and air
pressure
B:
Water vapor in the atmosphere
Affected by temperature and air
pressure
B,
Water vapor in the atmosphere
Affected by temperature and air
pressure
What is
Lightning bolt heats that the air around
it, causing the air to expand
Colder air rushes into the space
with a crash
Thunder
What is a Meteorologist?
Scientist who studies the
atmosphere and weather
What is the weight of the air, pulled by gravity, and greatest at the earth's surface?
A: Air Pressure
B: Local Wind
A, Air pressure
What is a boundary between unlike air masses?
A front
DOUBLE POINTS: What are the types of Local winds?
Sea breezes, land breezes valley winds, and mountain winds
What is a
Funnel-shaped cloud of swirling
winds that reaches down to the
ground
Tornado
What is a snowstorm with strong, freezing winds and blowing snow?
Blizzard