Earth's Atmosphere
Weather Tools
Winds
Water Cycle
Convection, Conduction, & Radiation
100
The innermost and densest layer in Earth's atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
100
A tool that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
The uneven heating of the Earth's surface.
What causes wind?
100
The four stages of the water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection?
100
The transfer of energy through direct contact.
What is conduction?
200
The second innermost layer of Earth's atmosphere.
What is the stratosphere?
200
A tool that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
The three types of global winds.
What are easterlies, westerlies, and trade winds?
200
When water gets so hot, it becomes water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
The transfer of energy through electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
300
The outermost layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?
300
A tool that measures rain.
What is a rain gauge?
300
The four types of local winds.
What are sea breezes, land breezes, mountain winds, and valley winds?
300
When water vapor forms into clouds.
What is condensation?
300
The transfer of energy through matter.
What is convection?
400
The second outermost layer in Earth's atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere?
400
A tool that measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400
The apparent curving of the path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis effect?
400
When clouds cool down and pour rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
400
The rate which a material warms and cools.
What is specific heat?
500
The process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be without its atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
A tool that measures humidity.
What is a psychrometer?
500
A narrow belt of high-speed winds blowing from east to west.
What is a jet stream?
500
When water gets sent into bodies of water and is sent back into the main system of water.
What is collection?
500
The increase of volume resulting from an increase in temperature.
What is thermal expansion?
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