Weather
Short - term temperature and precipitation, Specific day and place
What is weather?
The higher you climb in _______, the colder it gets.
What is altitude?
Water vapor (gas) turning into a liquid. Clouds forming.
What is condensation?
The sound given off by the explosive expansion of air heated by a light stroke.
What is thunder
The atmospheric layer that we live in.
What is the troposphere?
The amount of moisture in the air.
Who is humidity?
The average temperatures and precipitation in an area over long periods of time
What is climate?
Liquid water turning into water vapor (gas)
What is evaporation
When these sometimes giant storms move over land they lose strength or weaken.
What is a hurricane?
The layer of the atmosphere closest to outer space.
What is the exosphere
A person who studies weather
What is a meteorologist?
The areas vertically East and West of the Prime Meridian
What is longitude?
The process of turning water directly from water vapor to ice
What is deposition?
Warm humid air pulled into a funnel-shaped column.
What is a tornado?
Meteors are destroyed in this layer.
What is the mesosphere?
The earth's rotation pushes the winds to the right or the left depending on the hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The parallel distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
In addition to the process of photosynthesis, plants use water as a transport system for nutrients and release the excess water through the leaves into the environment
what is transpiration?
Name 3 reasons that the Earth heats up unevenly
What is tilt on axis, rotation around sun, water and land heating and cooling at different rates, ocean currents?
This layer (in the stratosphere) is being destroyed by the burning of fossil fuels. It protects us from harmful UV rays.
What is the ozone layer?
The force exerted on a given area by the weight of the air above it.
What is air pressure?
The study of Earth's climates
What is climatology?
The process of turning water directly from ice to water vapor
What is sublimation?
This instrument is used to measure winds speeds during a storm
What is an anemometer?
Space shuttles orbit and the northern lights occur in this layer.
What is the thermosphere?