Atmosphere
The condition of air around us is called_____
What is WEATHER?
Rain brings NEW water to Earth. TRUE or FALSE
What is FALSE? There is NO new water on Earth. Is is all part of the water cycle
What is a mass of water droplets of ice crystals that float in the air?
What are CLOUDS?
Water that falls from the sky is called this.
What is PRECIPITATION?
When ice falls from the sky in the warmer months, it is called _________, but in the colder months, it is called __________.
What is HAIL and SLEET?
Weather is caused by these 4 factors:
a. temperature, moisture, dirt, wind
b. temperature, wind, pressure, moisture
c. rain, sleet, snow, hail
What is B (temp, wind, pressure, moisture)?
The first part of the water cycle involves the ____.
What is the SUN?
Cirrus clouds are feathery and white icicles in the sky that mean that rain or snow is coming. TRUE or FALSE
What is TRUE?
Name 2 of the 4 types of precipitation.
What is RAIN, SNOW, SLEET, HAIL?
This type of area has higher humidity: COASTAL or DESERT
That is COASTAL?
The atmosphere is made up of both nitrogen (75%) and oxygen (25%). TRUE or FALSE
What is TRUE?
The steps of the water cycle include:
A. Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation
B. Water Vapor, Puddles, Clouds
C. Rain, Thunder, Lightening
What is A (Evap, Condens, Precip)?
Cumulus clouds are cottony thick, white fluffy clouds that mean a bad storm is coming. TRUE or FALSE
What is FALSE? Cumulus clouds are cottony but they mean FAIR weather.
All snowflakes have this many sides.
What is 6?
High humidity and high temps = near _____________
Low humidity and low temps = near ____________
What is EQUATOR?
What are POLES?
The layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth is called the ___________.
What is troposphere?
The word cycle means: __________
What is CIRCLE?
Nimbus clouds are gray clouds that tell us snow or rain is coming soon. TRUE or FALSE
What is FALSE? Stratus clouds mean snow/rain coming.
Grass sometimes has this on it in the morning. It is water vapor from the night air.
What is DEW?
Celcius scale is demonstrated with the letter ___ and Fahrenheit scale is demonstrated with the letter ___
What is C and F.
The other layers of the Earth are called:
a. stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere
b. Earth, Saturn, Mars
c. oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide
What is A (strato, meso, thermo)?
Condensation forms when ____ air gets ________.
What is WARM air gets COOLER?
What is COOL, FORM?
When it is really cold, dew can freeze and this is called ___________.
What is FROST?
What are the 4 types of AIR MASSES?
cold and ____
cold and wet
warm and dry
_____ and wet
What is DRY and WARM?