Atmosphere
Air
Water Cycle
Clouds
Vocabulary
100

The layer that has the gases we breathe.

What is the troposphere?

100

This measures air pressure.

What is a barometer?

100
Rain, sleet, snow and hail are all types of this.
What is precipitation?
100
These are the three categories of clouds.
What is cirrus, cumulus and stratus?
100
This measures the temperature.
What is a thermometer?
200

This is the layer that the ozone is in.

What is the stratosphere?

200

These winds are found at the equator and are very calm because they go up into the atmosphere from the heat.

What are the doldrums?

200
The changing of a liquid to a gas is this
What is evaporation?
200
This is a stratus cloud that forms near the ground.
What is fog?
200
This is what happens from the uneven heating of the Earth and water.
What is weather?
300
The layer in the stratosphere that helps protect us from UV rays?
What is the ozone layer?
300

These winds happen between 30 degrees north or south and the equator.

What are tradewinds?

300
When liquid forms from water vapor cooling we call it this.
What is condensation?
300
This is a tall and very stormy cloud.
What is cumulonimbus?
300
This is the amount of water vapor is in the air.
What is humidity?
400
The layer that has the jet stream.
What is the troposphere?
400

This wind happens at the top of the troposphere in the Northern Hemisphere and moves from West to East.

What is the jet stream?

400
This is what happens when rain or snow melts off of a mountain and into another bed of water or the ground.
What is surface runoff?
400
Describe cirrus clouds by telling what they are made of, where they are in the sky, and what they look like.
What is ice crystals, over 23000 feet and they look like a horse's tail?
400
A high pressure system will give us this kind of a day.
What is a clear and sunny day?
500
These are the 2 most common gases in the atmosphere, and another gas that keeps in heat.
What are Nitrogen and oxygen, and what is Carbon dioxide?
500

This is what happens to air pressure as you move up in the atmosphere.

What is decreases?

500
This is when water from the leaves of plants evaporates into the air.
What is transpiration?
500
When the weather man tells you the weather will be cloudy or rainy, you know that this kind of system is coming.
What is a low pressure system?
500
This is what happens in convection currents and how wind happens.
What is hot air rises and the cold air sinks into the empty space making wind?
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