Atmosphere & Meteorology
Name the two components of air.
What is Nitrogen and Oxygen?
Conditions in the atmosphere at a given time.
What is weather?
The way water is reused over and over.
a. water cycle
b. Evaporation
c. Precipitation
d. Transpiration
What is the water cycle?
God provides a way to return nitrogen to the soil through.
What is a lightening?
The five oceans
What are Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Artic.
Name two of the five levels of the atmosphere.
What is the......
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Exosphere
Average weather condition over a long time.
What is Climate?
Water that is leaving the atmosphere.
a. water cycle
b. Evaporation
c. Precipitation
d. Transpiration
What is precipitation?
Hurricanes lose power when the reach _________________.
What is reaching land?
The water Levels along the shore.
What are the tides?
This causes air to have weight.
What is the gravity pulling down on the air molecules?
Climate with four distinct regions.
A. Tropical
B. Sub-Tropical
C. Temperate
D. Desert
What is Temperate?
Water vapor enter the atmosphere primarily.
a. water cycle
b. Evaporation
c. Precipitation
d. Transpiration
What is evaporation?
A weather phenomenon keeps temperatures more even on earth.
What is wind?
The three parts of the ocean floor
What is the continental shelf, continental slope, abyssal plain?
The study of the atmosphere, particularly the study of the conditions of the troposphere.
What is meteorology?
Trapping of heat in the earth’s atmosphere.
a. Ice Age
b. greenhouse effect
c. Global warming
What is the Greenhouse effect?
Water vapor that is released when a person breathes.
a. water cycle
b. Evaporation
c. Precipitation
d. Transpiration
What is transpiration?
Warm updrafts suck cool downdrafts into them. The falling drier air can cause the updraft to begin to spiral, if there is enough heat and energy, the spiral can tighten and speed up.
What is a tornado?
The ocean zone with the most life.
What is the sunlit/euphotic zone?
The atmosphere protects us from ____________.
What is extreme temperatures, vacuums, solar radiation and meteors, and oxygen to breath?
Cloudy with a chance of rain describes weather or climate?
Weather
Name
A severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least 35 mph and lasting for a prolonged period of time.
What is a blizzard?
A tiny animal that resembles A upside down jellyfish that lives in the oceans and secretes a hard cup around itself.
What is a coral?