This is a bright flash of electricity associated with many storms.
What is lightening?
100
This is the section of the thermosphere that is the highest part of Earth's atmosphere just before reaching space.
What is the exosphere?
100
Air pressure is measured by using this device.
What is a barometer?
100
The entrapment of solar radiation by gases in the atmosphere, causing warming, is known by this name.
What is the greenhouse effect?
100
This is the main, simple, difference between climate and weather.
What is time?
200
This happens when two air masses with differing temperatures and pressures collide, creating high winds that rotate over land.
What is a tornado?
200
The ozone layer, which protects us from solar radiation resides in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the stratosphere?
200
When the skies are clear and sunny, we are most likely experiencing this kind of pressure system.
What is a high pressure system?
200
This greenhouse gas is found all over the planet, in 3 different phases (solid, liquid, and gas).
What is water?
200
This energy is what gets trapped in the atmosphere and heats the planet.
What is solar radiation.
300
This is a system of alternating winds that may bring in large quantities of rain to a hot dry region.
What is a monsoon?
300
Most weather occurs in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
300
When air moves from high to low pressure, this is formed.
What is wind?
300
This greenhouse gas is released into the air naturally as well as unnaturally.
What is carbon dioxide?
300
This is a natural way in which carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere.
What are volcanoes or forest fires?
400
This is a tropical storm that forms when air masses collide over the ocean.
What is hurricane/typhoon?
400
After a temperature increase in the stratosphere, the temperature starts to decrease in this next layer, where the coldest region of the atmosphere occurs.
What is the mesosphere?
400
It is this force that acts on air, causing pressure on the Earth.
What is gravity?
400
Carbon dioxide is definitely a heat trapper, but not as significant as these other two gases.
What are methane and water vapor?
400
There is a correlation on climate graphs between these two factors, which tell scientists that climate change is occurring.
What are temperature and carbon dioxide emissions?
500
This brother and sister team develop based on temperatures of the pacific ocean and can affect weather across North America.
What is El Nino and La Nina?
500
This layer of the atmosphere is past the thermosphere, into space. The Aurora Borealis occurs here.
What is the magnetosphere?
500
The three factors affecting air pressure.
What are temperature, altitude, and humidity?
500
The two gases that make up 99% of the atmosphere.
What are oxygen and nitrogen?
500
Most scientists agree that this species is responsible for global climate change.