The movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure.
What is wind?
100
The state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
200
Steps to the Scientific Method of Investigation.
What are Problem, Research, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analysis, and Conclusion?
200
The layer that protects us from the sun's harmful rays.
What is the ozone layer?
200
The transfer of energy or heat by the flow of material.
What is convection?
200
Along the equator, heating cuases air to expand, crating a zone of low pressure. Almost no wind occurs HERE.
What is the doldrums?
200
An instrument that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
300
The laws of science are......
What is universal?
300
Pollutants believed responsible for destroying the ozone layer.
What are chlorofluorocarbons? (CFC's)
300
The process of water vapor changing to a liquid.
What is condensation?
300
Narrow belts of strong winds blow near the troposphere. THye help move storms across the country. They are...
What is the jet stream?
300
An instrument that measures wind direction.
What is wind vane or wind sock?
400
Factors in an experiment that stay the same.
What are constants?
400
The five layers of the atmosphere.
What are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?
400
A term that describes all the waters of Earth.
What is hydrosphere?
400
The rotation of the Earth causes moving air and water to appear to turn to the right north of the equator and to the left south of the equator. This is called....
What is the Coriolis Effect?
400
The amount of water vapor present in the air compared to the amount needed for saturation at a specific temperature.
What is relative humidity?
500
A standard used for comparison.
What is control?
500
The layer found within the mesosphere and thermosphere made up of electrically charged particles.
What is the ionosphere?
500
Two things that can happen to the energy from the sun.
What is it can be reflected or absorbed?
500
Four global wind belts are....
What are the prevailing westerlies, doldrums, trade winds, and polar easterlies?
500
This type of front involves three air masses of different temperatures: colder air, cool air, and warm air.The are shown on weather maps as purple lines with triangles and semicircles.