The average, year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area is known as...
What is climate?
100
Relative humidity is measured with a...
What is psychrometer?
100
A funnel-shaped cloud that touches the Earth's surface is known as...
What is a tornado?
100
The reason air has pressure.
What is air has mass? As you move up in the atmosphere, air pressure decreases.
200
The layers of the atmosphere are classified according to changes in...
What is temperature?
200
2 factors scientists use to classify climate.
What is precipitation and temperature?
200
Large clouds that produce thunderstorms are called...
What is cumulonimbus clouds?
200
A scientist who studies and tries to predict weather is known as...
What is a meteorologist?
200
Wind speed is measured using a...
What is an anemometer?
300
The part of our atmosphere that protects us from ultraviolet radiation is known as...
What is the ozone layer?
300
Water vapor is water in the form of a/an...
What is a gas? When plants release water vapor directly into the atmosphere it is known as transpiration.
300
Very high feathery clouds are called...
What is cirrus clouds?
300
Earth's rotation makes global winds curve. This is called...
What is the Coriolis effect?
300
Winds are caused by changes in this...
What is air pressure? Cool air tends to be more dense and flows under warm air- lifting it up.
400
Name the layer in which weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
400
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere is known as a...
What is a storm?
400
Two conditions that are required for clouds to form are...
What are the cooling of air and the presence of particles?
400
Name and explain the three types of heat transfer.
What is conduction is heat transfer by two substances that are in contact, convection is the transfer of heat by movement in a fluid, and radiation is the transfer of heat by electromagnetic radiation?
400
Layered clouds that often cover much of the sky and are dull gray in color are...
What are stratus clouds?
500
Name the layers of the atmosphere from the ground up.
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere?
500
The seasons on Earth are caused by...
What is the tilt of Earth on its axis and its revolution around the sun?
500
The 2 differences between sleet and hail are...
What is where the ice pellets form and the size?
500
Hurricanes form over...
What is warm ocean waters?
500
Draw the symbols for a warm, cold, occluded, stationary front, and explain how each front occurs. Why does cool air tend to be stuck at Earth's surface?