Clouds
Atmosphere
The Water Cycle
Weather Disturbances
Definitions
100
Cirrus Clouds
What is the name of the cloud that has thin, wispy strands high in the sky?
100
Stratosphere
What is the third layer of the earth's atmosphere?
100
Precipitation
What is the part of the water cycle that results in snow?
100
Tornado
What is a strong, fast column of rising warm air that starts to spin?
100
Meteorologist
What is a person who studies weather patterns?
200
Cumulus Clouds
What are puffy billowy clouds that are formed when warm moist air rises.
200
Troposphere
What is the part of the earth's atmosphere that is between earth and the stratosphere?
200
Evaporation
What is the result of long periods of sun shining on the water?
200
Tsunami
What is an earthquake under the ocean?
200
Barometer
What is a device that measures the changes in air pressure?
300
Stratus Clouds
What are white and grey clouds that all look the same.
300
Ozone
What is found in the stratosphere, and absorbs harmful rays that hurt humans?
300
Condensation
What what part of the water cycle is illustrated by a build up of raindrops in the clouds?
300
Lightning
What happens when giant clouds billow up high and warm air rises inside the cloud which carries water vapour up from the Earth's surface?
300
Condensation
What happens when water vapour changes back to liquid water?
400
Clouds are formed when water on earth evaporates and makes water vapor that is held in the air.
How are clouds formed?
400
Stratosphere
What is the layer of the atmosphere where temperatures do not change?
400
Water
What liquid is the same now as was in the time of the dinosaurs?
400
El Nino
What is the name of a severe change in weather patterns?
400
The equator
What is the line that divides the earth horizontally?
500
serious
Which one of the following is NOT a cloud: numbus, cumulus, cirrus, serious
500
Oxygen and nitrogen
What gases are found most commonly in the atmosphere?
500
Making a cloud
What class experiment did we do to illustrate the water cycle?
500
Air Pressure
What did we see an example of in class when a cup was filled with water and was turned upside down without spilling a drop?
500
The Greenhouse Effect
What is the name of the "overheating of the earth"?
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