Severe Weather
What are the four main types of precipitation?
What is Rain, Snow, Sleet and Hail
Which layer of the atmosphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere?
What is Troposphere?
Name the two main atmospheric gasses
What is Nitrogen and Oxygen
What is the main distinction between a rainforest and the desert?
What is water and sand
What three surfaces do convection currents move through?
What is air, water, and molten rock
Where do tropical storms (including those that become hurricanes) form?
What is Tropical Oceans
Which layer of the atmosphere do most clouds exist in?
What is Troposphere
What does the Ozone layer protect the earth from?
What will heat up slower at the beach: sand or water
What is Water
Name one of the three types of convection that we discussed in the lesson
What is Boiling Water, Hail Formation or Sea Breeze
Which storm requires the most thermal energy out of all of the severe storms?
What is Hurricane
The Ozone Layer is a ________ of ozone gas in the atmosphere
What is Blanket
Name the 5 types of greenhouse gasses?
What is Carbon Dioxide, Nitrous Oxide, Methane, Water Vapor, and Ozone
Climate is the average weather conditions for a particular location over a _____ period of time.
What is Long
In a convection current, which temperature of air rises?
What is warm/hot air
What is Water Shortage?
Which layer is where all weather exists?
What is Troposphere?
When meteors and rocks come into our atmosphere, they often burn up due to ________ between the object and the gasses
What is Friction
Why does sand heat up faster than water?
What is Because sand is darker and color and absorbs more of the heat.
Conduction is the transfer of heat between two_____
What is Objects
Which severe storm begins as a low pressure system?
What is Hurricane
Which layer has the Ozone Layer?
What is Stratosphere
The Ozone Layer acts as a _______ to BLOCK out harmful UV Rays (hint: think armor)
What is Shield
Weather is the state of the atmosphere at a place and time in regards to... (give atleast 1 example)
What is heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain or something similar
Thermal energy is the transfer of ______
What is Heat