Earth is able to sustain life because our unique planet has this.
What is an atmosphere (or water)?
100
Freezing rain is something to expect during this type of storm.
What is an ice storm?
100
The three types of fronts are cold fronts, warm fronts, and _______.
What is a stationary front?
100
The season that follows summer and is characterized by falling leaves and football season.
What is fall?
100
Names for the 3 most widely known cloud breeds.
What are cumulus, stratus, and cirrus?
200
Earth's atmosphere is composed 78% of this gas.
What is nitrogen?
200
This front occurs when a warm air mass gently rises above a cold air mass.
What is a cold front?
200
Long period of time during which huge sheets of ice spread beyond the polar regions.
What is an ice age?
200
This type of cloud usually brings thunderstorms and lots of precipitation.
What is a cumulonimbus?
300
The 3rd layer of the atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere?
300
These are soft hail balls.
What are graupel?
300
This happens when a cold air mass rises above a warm air mass.
What is a warm front?
300
This season occurs on the hemisphere of the planet that is tilted towards the Sun during that time of year.
What is summer?
300
Words that describe a cirrus cloud.
What is thin or wispy?
400
This air parameter DECREASES as you go up in elevation, say, from L.A. to Denver.
What is air pressure?
400
This storm follows a hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
400
This is a two-word name that describes an air mass that is hot and humid.
What is Maritime Tropical?
400
This is a climate phenomena that is characterized by warm oceanic temperatures near South America, have effects on climates around the globe.
What is El Nino?
400
This type of cloud stretches over large areas, making your day...overcast.
What is a stratus cloud?
500
Pollution increases the amount of these in the atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gases?
500
The nickname for the region of the United States that experiences a lot of tornadoes.
What is Tornado Alley?
500
A Continental Polar air mass has what type of temperature and humidity?
What is cold and dry?
500
The number of subclimate zones that are on Earth.
What is 12?
500
Water vapor particles have an electrical charge. When they bounce off each other there is a reaction between particles of opposite charges, causing a spark. Spark can also be caused between the particles in the cloud and the ground.