What is the mixture of solids, liquids, and gases that surrounds Earth?
100
A puffy white cloud with a flat bottom on a fair weather day.
What is cumulus?
100
The definition of front.
What is the boundary where two different air masses meet?
100
The definition of an air mass.
What is a body of air that can cover thousands of square kilometers/miles and has similar temperature, water vapor, and pressure?
100
This instrument measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
200
Name the five layers of the atmosphere.
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere?
200
Name two prefixes for clouds and describe their meaning.
What is nimbo-rain alto-middle?
200
These are symbols and colors for fronts on a weather map.
What is Cold Front-Blue and triangular,
Warm Front- Red and half circles?
200
This means ocean and this refers to land.
What is Maritime for ocean and continental for land?
200
This instrument uses cameras to take pictures of the
atmosphere.
What is a satellite?
300
Name the two most abundant gases in the atmosphere.
Nitrogen and Oxygen.
300
This is the part of the cloud formation when water changes from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
300
Describe a warm front.
What is when a warm air mass moves over a cold air mass?
300
This warm dry air masses tends can create droughts in the middle United States.
What is Continental Tropical?
300
This instrument measures humidity, and another instrument measures air pressure.
What is hygrometer for humidity and barometer for air?
400
Name two types of radiation from the sun that reach the troposphere and what they do,
What is ultradiation causes sunburn and infrared radiation is warming.
400
Name two
cloud types, describe their appearance, and something else about them. Hint where they form or weather they bring.
What is Cirrus-thin wispy-high altitudes-ice crystals-pleasant
Cumulnimbus-dark puffy tall clouds-heavy
rain/storms
400
Describe a cold air mass, the weather it brings, and the weather it leaves behind, and the speed of movement.
What is it pushes the warm air up and out, it brings stormy
weather, it acts quickly, and leaves cold dry air.
400
Name the two air masses that bring dry/cold and dry frigid air.
What is the Continental Polar and Continental Arctic?
400
This instrument can show details about a storm, whether it contains hail, or produce a tornado.
What is radar?
500
Temperature decreases with altitude in the atmosphere.
What is Earth's surface provides most of the heat.
500
These are the ingredients for making clouds.
What is water that has changed from a gas, cools, condenses around tiny particles such as dust or salt?
500
Weather can change dramatically in a day.
What is when different air masses meet weather is created?
500
Compare/Contrast Maritime Polar and Maritime Tropical masses.
What is they are both form over ocean (Atlantic and Pacific).
They both bring moist air.
Yes, they are both air masses.
However, Maritime Polar air masses have cold air, and the Maritime Tropical bring warm air?
500
Name four locations you can learn about the weather.
What is internet, radio, newspaper, or television?