Atmosphere
Layers of Atmosphere
Earth's Water
Weather
Severe Weather
100
What are the layers of gases surrounding Earth?
Atmosphere
100
Where weather occurs and layer closest to the Earth.
What is the troposphere?
100
Never ending water pattern
What is the water cycle?
100
Current condition of the atmosphere
What is weather?
100
Violent, whirling wind that moves in a narrow path over land
What is a tornado?
200
Makes up 78% of the atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
200
The outtermost layer of the atmosphere.
What is exosphere?
200
Water droplets grow in size and become heavy forming a cloud. What happens next?
What is precipitation
200
Amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is called
What is humidity?
200
A large storm that begins as an area of low pressure over tropical areas.
What is a hurricane?
300
Makes up 21% of the atmosphere.
What is Oxygen?
300
Layer that filters out harmful X rays and gamma rays
What is thermosphere?
300
When water disappears
What is evaporation?
300
A MEASURE (in percent) of the amount of wator vapor that is present compared to the amount that could be held at a specific temperature.
What is relative humidity?
300
Though winds of a hurricane can be deadly, most deaths are caused by drowning. This is due to what?
What is storm surge?
400
Solids such as dust, salt, and pollen and tiny liquids droplets such as acids in the atmosphere.
What are aerosols?
400
Warms as you go upwards, most atmospheric ozone contained here.
What is the stratosphere?
400
When wator vapor is removed by plants
What is transpiration?
400
Large body of air that develops over a region of Earth's surface
What is air mass?
400
Although sustained winds are dangerous, most damage to building is caused by high speed what?
What are wind gusts?
500
How many layers of the atmoshpere are there?
What is 5?
500
Part of the thermosphere and mesosphere that reflects AM radio waves.
What is ionosphere?
500
Process by which water molecules change back into droplets of water.
What is condensation?
500
Where air masses of different temperatures meet and boundary forms. This boundary is called?
What is a front?
500
People die from storm surge because they did not seek higher ground. Doing this is called?
What is evacuation?
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