Energy
Heat Transfer
Winds
Water
Precipitation
100
This is how energy travels/transfers from the sun.
What is radiation?
100
The instrument with which temperature is measured.
What is a thermometer?
100
The tool used to measure wind.
What is an anemometer?
100
The movement of water between the atmosphere and the Earth.
What is the water cycle?
100
Precipitation that freezes when it hits a cold surface.
What is freezing rain?
200
Where most of the Sun's energy that enters the atmosphere ends up.
What is the surface of the Earth?
200
The average amount of energy of motion.
What is temperature?
200
The effect of the spin of the Earth on global winds.
What is the Coriolis effect?
200
The measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
200
Precipitation that was converted into ice crystals in a cloud.
What is snow?
300
The kind of radiation that from the sun that causes sunburn, eye damage and skin cancer.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
300
The temperatures that water freezes and boils in degrees Celsius?
What are 0 degrees and 100 degrees.
300
When cool air over water moves toward the warmer air over land that is rising.
What is a sea breeze?
300
How water vapor enters the atmosphere from plants.
What is transpiration?
300
Raindrops that pass through freezing air and freeze before hitting the ground.
What is sleet?
400
The most common kind of energy received by the Earth from the Sun.
What is visible light (infrared radiation - heat is second)?
400
The way the troposphere is heated.
What are convection currents in the atmosphere?
400
The three major wind belts.
What are Trade Winds, Prevailing Westerlies, and Polar Easterlies.
400
Fluffy white clouds that mean fair weather - unless they get very tall and dark which means thunderstorms.
What are cumulus/cumulonimbus clouds?
400
The instrument used to measure rain.
What is a rain gauge?
500
The process by which gases hold heat in the air.
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
The ways the air near Earth's surface is heated.
What are radiation and conduction?
500
The reason for the horizontal movement of air.
What are differences in air pressure?
500
The two factors required for condensation to occur.
What are cooling (to below dew point) and particles.
500
On average, how much snow is produced by 1 inch of rain.
What is 10 inches of snow?
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