Atmosphere
Living things are found here?
What is troposphere?
Humidity is the amount of this in the air.
What is water or moisture?
What is an air mass?
The slope of a warm front.
What is gradual?
What kind of energy is released with lightning.
What is static electricity?
The coldest level of the atmosphere?
What is the mesosphere?
This type of air mass is always pushed on top.
What is warm air mass?
The front who's symbol is purple.
What is an occluded front?
The way we figure out which way a front is moving.
What is by the direction of the symbols?
What hurricanes are called in the Pacific Ocean.
What is "typhoon"?
This is found in the stratosphere and protects us from harmful UV rays.
What is the ozone layer?
The amount of water vapour in the air compared to how much it can hold in total.
What is relative humidity?
Weather caused by low air pressure.
What is lousy weather. Storms and rain.
The scale we use to measure the DAMAGE of a tornado.
What is the Fujita scale?
The saffir simpson scale
What is the way we categorize hurricanes.
This is the hottest layer?
What is rthermosphere?
This is what happens at a stationary front.
What is 2 air masses come together and neither push the other out of the way.
This causes rain and storms.
What is a weather front?
The prefix that means "outside"
What is "exo-"
Hurricanes take place in this part ofthe world.
What are the tropics/ equator?
You will find the aurora borealis here.
What is thermosphere?
This is what happens to temperature as you climb higher in the atmosphere.
What is moves back and forth?
The 2 ways we characterize air masses.
What is by humidity (moisture) and temperature?
The definition of the eye wall.
What is the part of the hurricane that has the strongest winds, directly surrounding the eye.
Tornadoes form this shape (begins with letter "f").
What is a "funnel"?