Atmosphere
Air Movement
Vocabulary
Storms
Misc.
100
The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs
What is the troposphere?
100
The boundary where two air masses meet
What is a front?
100
What is a destructive, rotating column of air that has very high speeds, is visible as a funnel shape cloud the touches the ground.
What is a tornado?
100
The temperature of air that holds more water/moisture
What is Warm air?
200
The most common gas in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
200
The time of day that a land breeze occurs
What is Night Time
200
A large body of air that has the same temperature and moisture throughout.
What is an air mass?
200
Hurricanes start at ___________ waters near the __________.
What is warm waters near the Equator.
200
Which warms and cools faster faster (land or water)?
What is LAND
300
This is found in the stratosphere, there is protects us from the sun's harmful rays
What is ozone
300
Wind blows from an area of ___________ pressure to _______ pressure.
What is high pressure to low pressure
300
The difference between climate and weather
What is weather is the current condition of the atmosphere, which can change hour by hour, climate is the pattern of weather over a long period of time.
300
A storm is named a hurricane at _____ mph
What is 74 or more
300
What are the three basic cloud shapes?
What is cirrus (thin and wispy), cumulus (puffy like cotton), and stratus (white/gray layers)
400
The layers of the atmosphere, in order, starting with Earth's surface
What is Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
400
The air mass that affects Atlanta, GA
What is Maritime Tropical
400
The movement of heat when hot air rises and cold air sinks, creating a circular motion
What is convection
400
The type of clouds associated with thunderstorms
What is cumulonimbus
400
The layers of the atmosphere, in order, starting at Earth's surface
What is Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
500
The top four gases that make up the atmosphere
What is Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon, and Carbon Dioxide
500
During the day, a __________ __________ will develop as air over the land heats up and rises, cooler air from the ocean takes it place.
What is sea breeze
500
The way the sun's energy is transferred to Earth as electromagnetic waves
What is radiation
500
The nickname given to an area in the southern plains of the central United States that consistently experiences a high frequency of tornadoes each year.
What is Tornado Alley
500
The three ways that heat is transferred
What is conduction, convection, and radiation
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