Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere
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What are the three parts of the water cycle?
Evaporation, Condensation, and Precipitation
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What is a cumulus cloud?
Puffy, white clouds
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Which way does weather move across the United States?
West to East
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What is a meteorologist?
A scientist who studies and forecasts weather.
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In which layer of the atmosphere do people breathe in?
Troposphere
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When water changes to gas, the gas is called?
Water Vapor
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What is a stratus cloud?
low, flat sheets of gray clouds
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Where would a warm, moist air mass be found?
- Desert
- North Pole
- Mountain
- Ocean
Ocean
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What is air pressure?
The force of the atmosphere pressing down on the earth's surface.
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The higher you go into the atmosphere, the hotter it becomes? True or False.
FALSE.
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Water Vapor changes to a liquid when the air gets COOLER or WARMER?
Cooler
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What is cirrus clouds?
Clouds found high in the sky that look like feathers or curls.
300
What do you call the place where 2 air masses meet?
Front
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What is a barometer?
An instrument that measures air pressure.
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In which layer of the atmosphere do jet planes fly in?
Stratosphere
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What is needed for in the air to make clouds?
Dust
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Where in the sky do you find clouds?
Troposphere
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What is climate?
The general pattern of weather of a place over time and it is dependent on the amount of a sunlight a place receives.
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What is dew point?
The air temperature at which water condenses.
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What are the two main gases in the earth's atmosphere?
Oxygen and Nitrogen
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What are four types of precipitation?
Rain, Snow, Sleet, and Hail
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What is the liquid called that falls or comes out of clouds?
Precipitation
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Why are weather symbols all over the world the same?
So people can read or know the weather in a different country even if they don't know the language.
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What is condensation, evaporation, and precipitation?
Condensation is when water vapor turns to liquid water. Evaporation is when water turns into water vapor. Precipitation is rain, snow, hail, sleet or any other form of water.