Vocabulary
A large body of air
What is an air mass?
This absorbs solar radiation
What is the ozone layer?
This is characterized by cloudy weather and light or heavy precipitation
What is a stationary front?
These are low clouds that cover the entire sky.
What are stratus clouds?
Tis season is when the earth tilts away from the sun.
What is winter?
The transfer of heat or electric current from one substance from another by electric current
What is conduction?
Northern lights occur here
What is the thermosphere?
Where air masses meet is called:
What is a front?
These puffy clouds look like cotton balls.
What are cumulus clouds?
This is the longest day of the year.
What is the summer solstice?
The time or date the sun reaches the longest or shortest day
What is a solstice?
This is where clouds are found
What is the troposphere?
Cold air moving in is called this.
What is a cold front?
Water vapor, cooling temperatures and condensation causes this.
What are clouds?
When the sun moves north in March is called this
What is the spring equinox?
When the day and night are the same length
What is the equinox?
Meteors burn up here
What is the mesosphere?
The amount of water vapor in the air is called this.
What is humidity?
A natural process that warms the earth's atmosphere.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Latitude, landforms, locations of lakes and oceans, mountains and ocean currents affect?
What is climate?
The average of weather conditions in an area over a long period of time
What is climate?
Where space satellites are in orbit around earth
What is the exosphere?
This gas forms 78% of earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This day-to-day conditions with short-term conditions.
What is weather?
The shortest day of the year?
What is the winter solstice?.