What In the World?
H-2-O
Worlds Collide
What's Hot & What's Not?
100
A layer in the atmosphere that protects Earth from most of the sun’s ultra-violet (UV) rays.
What is The Ozone Layer?
100
This is the process of converting a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
100
This is when cold dense air moves into a region occupied by warmer air.
What is a Cold Front?
100
This is when light bounces off an object.
What is reflection?
200
This is the lowest part of the atmosphere where weather happens.
What is Troposphere?
200
This is the change in state form a gas to a liquid
What is condensation?
200
This forms when warm air moves into an area formerly covered by cooler air.
What is a Warm Front?
200
This is the transfer of energy through space by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
300
This layer contains the ozone layer.
What is Stratosphere?
300
This is any form of water that falls from a cloud.
What is precipitation?
300
This is when air is pushed up over elevated terrains like mountains.
What is Orographic lifting?
300
The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid mass or substance.
What is convection?
400
These prevailing winds move from West to East
What is Westerlies?
400
The general term for the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
400
This is the distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees
What is latitude?
400
This describes how Earth’s rotation affects free moving objects.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
500
These two belts of winds that almost constantly blow from the East to the West.
What are the Trade Winds?
500
This is the temperature air would need to be cooled to reach saturation.
What is Dew Point?
500
This is a a location where airflows meet, characteristically marked by upwelling of air.
What is convergence?
500
This is a device used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
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