What is water vapor, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide
100
What is the air that is pushed upward called?
What is updraft.
100
Is a solid or liquid more dense?
What is a solid
100
If the earth is rotated on its axis, half of it is always in what?
What is day/night.
100
What are the two types of atmospheric pressure?
What is high and low.
200
What causes greenhouse gases? Give 2 examples and explain how they work.
What is water vapor, car exhaust, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation.
200
What happens when the warm air is pushed upward?
What is condensation
200
Does adding heat to a substance increase or decrease density?
What is decrease.
200
If the Earth is a sphere, which part of it is heated more quickly.
What is the equator
200
Air wants to go from low to high pressure or high to low pressure?
What is high to low.
300
2 ways we can help balance the greenhouse effect?
What is planting a tree, reduce, reuse and recycling, driving less, and using less electricity.
300
What are the three phases of a thunderstorm?
What is early, mature, and dissipating.
300
Does adding pressure to a substance increase or decrease density?
What is increase
300
which heats faster, the earth or water?
What is the earth.
300
Name two qualities of high air pressure?
What is dense, cool, humid, and stable
400
Four things that happen to radiation from the sun when it reaches the atmosphere.
What is being reflected, absorbed by the atmosphere and earth, escaping the atmosphere, and being absorbed by greenhouse gases.
400
What are the two types of fronts that create a thunderstorm and which one is more dense?
What is warm front and cold front, and what is the cold front.
400
How is wind formed?
What is when hot air rises and cold air takes its place.
400
What is the name of the layer of the atmosphere where all the weather happens, the layer that is closest to the earth?
What is troposphere.
400
Areas of different pressure create what?
What is weather.
500
The five ways that the greenhouse effect affects the earth.
What is temperature rising, ice caps melting, sea levels rising, flooding of coastal regions, and increase of rainfall and snowfall.
500
How is lightning formed?
What is when friction causes electricity, the positive and negatively charged particles separate. The negative particles sink and the positive particles go up. They jump towards each other like static electricity.
What is when the negative particles are attracted to the positive particles and form a quick electric current.
500
Explain the Coriolis Effect
What is how the earth rotates and effects winds. The Northern Hemisphere rotates clockwise and the Southern Hemisphere rotates counterclockwise.
500
Why is unequal heating of the Earth important?
What is because it drives all weather.
500
Days with low air pressure usually have what kind of weather? Name two.