The Atmosphere
Precipitation
True or False
Clouds
Random
100
What protects us from the Sun's harmful rays?
What is the Ozone Layer
100
What form of Precipitation is in the form of ice lumps.
What is Hail.
100
The amount of water vapor present in the air is called dew point?
What is False, it is humidity.
100
What are the 3 main types of clouds?
What is Stratus, Cumulus, and Cirrus.
100
What does an anemometer measure?
What is Wind Speed.
200
What layer of the Atmoshere do we live in?
What is Troposphere
200
How does snow form?
What is when the air temperature is so cold that the water vapor changes directly to a solid.
200
The layer of the Atmosphere that contians the ozone layer is the Exosphere.
What is False, it is the Stratosphere.
200
What type of cloud is fog?
What is Stratus.
200
A boundry between 2 air masses of different density, moisture, or temperature is called a/an __________?
What is a front.
300
What is the Largest Layer in the Atmosphere?
What is the Thermosphere.
300
Air temperature determines _________________.
What is wether water forms rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
300
Sea Breeze forms during the day because water heats slower than land.
What is True.
300
How are clouds classified?
What is Mainly by shape and height.
300
What is a large body of air that has properties similar to the part of Earth's surface over which it develops?
What is an air mass.
400
What are all five layers of the atmosphere?
What is Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, & Exosphere.
400
When does Precipitation occur?
What is when cloud droplets combine and grow large enough to fall to Earth.
400
Car Exhaust causes a brown haze near cities.
What is True!
400
Where do Altostratus clouds form?
What is Middle levels.
400
Which type of air has a relative humidity of 100%? A. Humid B. Temerate C. Dry D. Saturated
What is D. Saturated
500
What is the Atmoshere mostly made of?
What is Nitrogen
500
Why are raindrops different sizes?
What is the strength of updrafts in a cloud.
500
Trade Winds are narrow belts of strong winds near the top of the troposhpere.
What is False, it's Jet Streams.
500
What does the prefix cirro- describe in the word Cirrostratus?
What is High Clouds.
500
Final Jeopardy! Which layer of the Atmosphere allows radio waves to travel across the country?
What is the Ionosphere.
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