Clouds and Layers
These make up clouds
What is water vapor and dust particles?
What is an ocean breeze or a land breeze?
When the land is cooler than the water or the water is cooler than the land
All materials in our universe are made of these
What are atoms
What is a methane, CO2, or Nitrous Oxide
This is caused by air over warm water
What are hurricanes/cyclones?
We live in this atmospheric layer.
What is the troposphere?
These are the tools that we used to measure wind direction and amount of precipitation
Wind vane and rain guage
When a high pressure front moves in what kind of weather would we expect to see
No clouds, great weather.
What tool and unit do we use to measure temperature in the USA
thermometer and Farenheit.
I am a storm that is characterized by fast winds and causing a lot of damage in less than a few minutes.
What is a tornado?
This layer is where meteors burn up.
What is the mesosphere?
What are the two factors that affect the ocean waters density?
temperature of the water and the amount of salt in the water
The type of gas that makes up the majority of air that we breathe is?
What is Nitrogen
What are 3 of the sentinels we use to measure climate change?
What is ocean temperature, global temperature, ice melt, ice cap melt, sea level and CO2 level
Name at least 2 roles of our atmosphere.
What is allows us to live, keeps us warm, protects us from space objects, protects us from UV rays
This is the layer that contains the Ozone Layer
What is the mesosphere
How do hot atoms and cold atoms behave differently
What is hot atoms expand and move faster and cold atoms shrink and move slower
How is our weather different from our climate
Weather is referring to a specific day. Climate is an average for the area.
Explain why the ocean takes so much longer to heat up and what constantly keeps the ocean moving
What is because the ocean is so much bigger and deeper and the ocean keeps circulating because of currents and sinking/rising of water.
The gas layer that has the ability to trap heat in the atmosphere and protect us from UV Rays
What is ozone?
This is the name of all 5 layers
Name them out loud..
The Earth's rotation makes the wind curve.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Why are our poles the two areas that have the coldest temperatures (must refer to the Earth's tilt and sunlight in your explanation)
What is Earth's tilt means that part of the Earth is always tilting toward the sun or away from it. Areas that get more direct sunlight are always warmest.
This person uses tools to predict the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
This is what the greenhouse gasses do that contributes to global warming (think of the online lab)
What is trapping heat??