Air & Fronts
Is Air a fluid? True or false:
TRUE
What is the first stage of the water cycle?
Evaporation
Define Liquid: (50% correct=100%)
a substance that has no fixed shape and yields easily to external pressure; a gas or (especially) a liquid.
Name ALL the levels of the atmosphere: (in order)
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Ozone Layer, Mesosphere, and Ionosphere.
What type of cloud is the most common?
cumulus
A front with both cold and warm, staying in the same place for long periods of time. What is this front called?
STATIONARY FRONT
what stage happens after evaporation?
Condensation
Define Condensation Nuclei: (75%=100%)
Tiny surfaces on which water may condense.
Why doesn't water vapor just fly out of the atmosphere?
After being warmed, the water vapor rises. When it reaches a certain point in the atmosphere it will cool or freeze, become more dense and fall back down to the Earth.
which cloud is the highest in the atmosphere?
Cirrus clouds
What happens when isobars on a map become close together?
The wind is increased in that area.
Where do all water particles go back to? (where do LOTS of water particles originate from?)
The ocean
Define Density: (80%=100%)
the amount of mass in a material compared to its volume.
Which level of the atmosphere has the most weather?
the Troposphere
What is a gray, low-level cloud, that blankets the sky called?
a stratus cloud
What front happens when there are blue triangles and red semi-circles both on the same side?
An Occluded front occurs.
Fill in the blanks:
Water cycle, precipitation, evaporation, __________
Condensation
Define Solar Energy: (100% or 0)
Heat and light from the sea.
which level of the atmosphere do we mostly live in?
The troposhpere
what does water vapor condensate on?
Condensation Nuclei
Wind travels form _____ pressure to ___ pressure.
High to low
A water particle flowing from a nearby creek gets sucked underground through a hole in the ground. The hole seems to just end but there is no water build-up. Where has the water gone, and where will it soon end up?
It sunk down to the groundwaters and will soon be carried back to the ocean.
Define Kinetic Energy: (100% or 0)
energy of motion
What forms when water is consistently cooling onside of a cloud and then suddenly falls faster than a water droplet. What is this formation called?
Hail
which cloud has sever weather and can produce lightning?
Cumulonimbus