Weather/Climate
The condition of Earth's atmosphere at any given time and place.
What is weather?
The layer of air that surrounds the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The main latitude line that divides the earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
These block the sun's rays from reaching the earth making the temperature drop.
What are clouds?
Precipitation is this form of matter falling from the clouds.
What is H2O (water)?
The tool used to measure precipitation
What is a rain gauge?
These stacks of atmosphere start with the troposphere where our weather occurs and ends with the exosphere.
What are layers?
This is what creates the 24 hour days of the earth.
What is the earth's rotation?
These are high, wispy clouds made of ice crystals.
What are cirrus clouds?
The tool used to measure rain amount
What is a rain gauge?
The element of weather containing the amount of moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
These are what the atmosphere is made of such as O2, CO2, N2, and H2O.
What are gasses?
How long does it take Earth to revolve or orbit around the sun?
What is 365 days?
Clouds form when water vapor cools and does this onto dust particles.
What is condenses?
Most common form of precipitation
What is rain?
Climate is the long-term pattern of this.
What is weather?
The measure of height where land and sea meet.
What is sea level?
The longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.
What is the summer solstice?
Nimbo/Nimbus clouds such as cumulonimbus mean this type of weather.
What is rain/snow?
This type of precipitation freezes in the clouds during winter months.
What is snow?
This type of climate is found in North Carolina and has 4 seasons.
What is temperate?
This happens to air as the altitude increases.
What is it gets colder and thinner?
The earth revolving around the sun causes these.
What are the seasons?
Low lying stratus clouds very close to the ground
What is fog?
These cause hail to form and remain in the clouds refreezing many times before falling to earth in warm weather.
What are updrafts?