The Atmosphere
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Vocabulary
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The weight of the atmosphere

What is atmospheric pressure?

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This is the most common form of precipitation.
What is rain.
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Difference between natural hazard & natural disaster 

What are impacted human lives?

200
These are 2 kinds of weather fronts and their symbols.
What are cold (pointy) and warm (curved)
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Minute-By-Minute changes in the atmosphere

What is weather? ( double or loss)

400

Tool used to measure air pressure

What is a barometer?

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The number of syllables in the word Mississippi

What is 4?

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When gravity moves ice and snow

What are avalanches? 

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Warm and cold air meet and neither air mass has enough force to move the other

What is a Stationary Front?

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Weather happens in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere.
600

The atmosphere is mainly a mixture of these 2 gases.( Double or loss)

What is nitrogen and oxygen?

600

The first man on the moon (double or loss)


Who is Neil Armstrong?

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When air masses come together in the center of the US they form these dangerous storms.
What are tornadoes
600

Weather a cold front brings

Cold, Rain, Snow, Clouds

600

What the weather in like over longer period of time in a specific area

What is Climate

800

The location of Ozone in the atmosphere.

What is the stratosphere.

800

Who painted the Mona Lisa?

Who is Leonardo da Vinci?

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When the sun heats and evaporates large amounts of ocean water it can form this type of storm.
What is a hurricane.
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Air temperature with more density 

What is Cold air? ( double or loss)

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This is the term that describes any form of water tha falls from clouds
What is precipitation
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These are the 4 main layers of the atmosphere in order from the Earth.( 1200 for each layer)

What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere 

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The town Ms. Mark lived in while in Australia ( HINT: Was my example for our trip planning activity)

What is Reedy Creek?

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A tool used to monitor Thunderstorms

What are Doppler Raders?

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A Purple symbol used on the weather map

What is an Occluded front?

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Lines on a map used to connect all places where air pressure has the same value

What are Isobars?