Atmosphere
Hydrosphere
Water Cycle
Causes of Weather
Weather Systems
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This is the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere.
What is 21%
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This is the percentage of all water on Earth that is saltwater.
What is a 97?
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The process of changing water into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
The condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is the climate?
100
This type of storm has strong wind, heavy precipitation, thunder, and lightning.
What is a thunderstorm?
200
This layer of the Atmosphere has life, clouds and weather.
What is the troposphere?
200
Bogs, swamps, and marshes are all different names for this body of water.
What is a wetland?
200
The process of changing water vapor into water, often forming the clouds in our sky.
What is condensation?
200
A large body of air with the same characteristics, such as temperature and humidity.
What is an air mass?
200
This type of scientist studies weather and weather systems.
What is a meteorologist?
300
This blocks harmful ultra violet rays from reaching Earth.
What is the ozone?
300
The percentage of freshwater that can be consumed.
What is 1%?
300
This kind of precipitation falls to the Earth as liquid water.
What is rain?
300
High speed winds that travel in the stratosphere.
What is the jet stream?
300
This type of front occurs when a cold air mass moves faster than a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
400
The changes of temperature have allowed scientists to understand this about our atmosphere.
What are the different layers?
400
Most of our freshwater is located here.
What are the polar ice caps?
400
The process of water evaporating from the leaves of trees and blades of grass.
What is transpiration?
400
Wind always travels in this direction.
What is high pressure to low pressure.
400
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere is called a _____________.
What is a storm?
500
This layer of our atmosphere has the greatest air pressure.
What is the troposphere?
500
Two bodies of fresh water that are very similar, differing in size and stability of their bottoms.
What pond and lakes?
500
Explain how the water cycle is the perfect example of recycling.
What is water being used over and over again - never created or destroyed?
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When the sun warms the land and the land warms the air, the air rises causing this type of pressure system.
What is low pressure?
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A boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
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