Vocabulary
Atmosphere
Weather Tools
Severe Weather
Climate vs Weather
100
A boundary between two air masses
What is a front?
100
There are this many layers of the atmosphere.
What is 5?
100
This tool measures how much rain has fallen.
What is a rain gauge?
100
This type of cloud is called a tornado if it touches the ground.
What is a funnel cloud.
100
The average of weather conditions over a long period of time.
What is climate.
200
A large body of air with generally the same temperature and moisture.
What is an air mass?
200
Most weather conditions happen in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
200
A barometer measures this.
What is air pressure?
200
A tornado happens when warm air does this to cold air.
What is push it down.
200
This type of weather (air masses) comes from polar ocean areas?
What is cold and moist
300
Gases and liquids rise and fall in a circular pattern.
What is a convection current?
300
The outer most layer of the atmosphere.
What is the exosphere?
300
A weather map has one of these to tell you what the symbols and colors mean.
What is a key
300
A hurricane forms over this and loses power when it goes over this.
What is the ocean and the land.
300
This happens daily and can change often.
What is weather
400
The average weather conditions over many years.
What is climate?
400
Air is made up of 8/10 nitrogen and about 2/10 of this other gas.
What is oxygen?
400
This tool measures how fast the wind is moving.
What is anemometer.
400
Name the three major types of severe weather from our science text book.
What is thunderstorm, tornadoes and hurricanes.
400
This causes precipitation at fronts.
What is rising warm air?
500
Very fast winds that move air masses.
What is jet streams?
500
The three middle layers of the atmosphere in order from closes to the earth to farthest.
What is stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere.
500
This tool measures the amount of moisture in the air.
What is a hygrometer.
500
The four parts of the water cycle are.
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation and run off.
500
These form when air temperatures are different.
What is convection currents
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