Water Cycle
Clouds
Our Atmosphere
Air Masses and Fronts
Air Quality
100
Evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation
What are steps in the water cycle?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
The layer of gases that surrounds the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
100
a front that is described as a mass of warm air trapped between two colder air masses
What is an occluded front?
100
Forest fires, soil erosion, dust storms, burning fossil fuels, factories, power plants.
What are sources of air pollution?
200
Water that is found underneath the ground
What is groundwater?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
the layer of our atmosphere in which weather occurs; where we live.
What is the troposphere?
200
Air mass that brings hot and dry weather?
What is continental tropical?
200
Organization that monitors air pollution.
What is EPA or Environmental Protection Agency?
300
The total amount of water on Earth ___________________ A. is constant, never changes. B. depends on the temperature C. is always changing
What is A. constant, never changes.
300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300
The layers of the atmosphere are classified according to changes in A. altitude B. pressure C. density D. temperature
What is D? Temperature.
300
Air mass that brings cool and wet weather.
What is maritime polar?
300
Why would the EPA seek to monitor atmospheric pollution and air quality? A. maintain the respiratory health of humans B. reduce the amount of oxygen released by the rainforests C. to make sure the air pressure remains constant over time D. to make it rain in drought affected areas
What is A? maintain the respiratory health of humans
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets, forms clouds.
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400
As you rise upwards in the atmosphere, air pressure A. first increases, then decreases B. decreases C. doesn't change D. increases
What is B? Decreases.
400
A cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
400
One thing people in the United States could do to reduce air pollution is A. drive their cars more B. build more factories C. use more public transportation D. burn more fossil fuels
What is C? use more public transportation?
500
Cooling of the air and the presence of particles in the air
What is needed for clouds to form?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
When climbing a mountain, you get out of breath easily because A. air pressure is greater B. there is less oxygen in each cubic meter of air. C. the percentage of oxygen in the air decreases. D. the air is more dense
What is B? There is less oxygen in each cubic meter of air.
500
a fast-moving warm air mass overtakes a slowly moving cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
500
One thing you can do to reduce air pollution?
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