The Atmosphere
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
What is the difference between weather and climate?
What is weather refers to short term differences in the atmosphere and climate refers to long term averages?
What effect causes global wind to move in curves?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
What type of front is represented by "spiky" triangles?
What is a cold front?
When it comes to tornadoes, EF0 and EF1 level tornadoes are described as what?
What is weak?
What can be found in the thermosphere layer of the atmosphere?
What is auroras?
How does the greenhouse effect heat the earth?
What is by using greenhouse gases to trap the sun's energy?
What is a narrow band of fast wind that pushes storms around?
What is a jet stream?
At what type of front do air masses meet and stop?
What is a stationary front?
What is an indicator that a tornado may be coming?
What is greenish skies and a wall of clouds?
List the 5 layers of the atmosphere from closest to the surface of earth to furthest away.
What are: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere?
What is located at the latitude 23 N?
What is the troposphere?
What are the lines on a weather map that represent areas of equal pressure called?
What are isobars?
What causes the sound of thunder?
What is the superheated air around the lightning rapidly expanding?
What device is used to measure the pressure of the atmosphere?
What is a barometer?
What type of air mass would be found over Russia?
What is continental polar?
What type of cloud is icy, wispy and high in the air?
What is a cirrus cloud?
If a warm front is moving south, which side of the front would the cold air be on?
What is the south side?
What two conditions are needed to form a cyclone?
What are lots of warm ocean water and a mechanism to lift the moist air (like an updraft)?
What are two ways that someone could increase the gas pressure in a container?
What are increase the temperature and increase the amount of gas particles inside?
What are three greenhouse gases that we learned about?
What are carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide?
What is cirrus (high), cumulonimbus (high and low), cumulus (low), and stratus (low)?
Describe where on a map cloudy weather would occur (include both pressure and fronts in your answer)?
What is at low pressure behind a cold front or in front of a warm front?
Explain what happens during the three stages of a thunderstorm.
What is the clouds form during the cumulus stage, precipitation forms during the mature stage, and the dissipation stage occurs when there is no more moist, warm air?