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The Atmosphere
The Water Cycle
Storms
Natural Disasters
Vocabulary
100
The atmosphere is mainly a mixture of these 2 gases.
What is nitrogen and oxygen?
100
This is the most common form of precipitation.
What is rain.
100
These are 2 kinds of weather fronts and their symbols.
What are cold (pointy) and warm (curved)
100
This is a massive tidal wave that is usually caused by undersea earthquakes.

What is a Tsunami?

100
This is the term that describes any form of water tha falls from clouds
What is precipitation
200
Air pressure does this as altitude increases.
What is decreases.
200
These are ice pellets that are larger than 5 mm and form during a thunderstorm.
What is hail.
200
When the sun heats and evaporates large amounts of ocean water it can form this type of storm.
What is a hurricane.
200

These massive storms are formed over warm waters when enough energy is gathered up to create circular rotation. When they make landfall, they cause massive damage. 

What are Hurricanes?

200

Weather happens in this layer of the atmosphere.

What is the troposphere.

300

This is the layer of the atmosphere that we live in.

What is the Troposhphere?

300
This is the reason why weather around the word is different.
What is the uneven heating of the earth.
300
What front is shown as having a curved red line with triangles?

What is a warm front?

300

These are formed by rotating warm and cold moist air, and usually form over flat terrain. The USA has the most of these in the world. 

What are Tornados?

300

This process turns liquid water into water vapor.

What is evaporation?

400
These are the 4 main layers of the atmosphere in order from the Earth.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere
400

This is when water vapor is turned back into its liquid form.

What is condensation?
400
When air masses come together in the center of the US they form these dangerous storms.
What are tornadoes
400

These are caused by shifts in the earth's crust and are rated on a scale of 0.0 to 10.0. They tend to happen on the Ring of Fire. 

What are Earthquakes?

400
This is what happens when there are long periods of little or no precipitation.
What is drought.
500
Convection currents are created when this happens in the air.
What is warm air rises and cold air sinks.
500

This part of the water cycle includes any water that rolls off of buildings, hills, mountains, or even down city streets.

What is runoff?

500

These two fronts tend to bring the thickest and most destructive storms.

Cold Fronts and Occluded Fronts

500

These happen when there are large chunks of loosened or barren earth on the sides of mountains or hills. Large amounts of rain, or even just gravity, can those chunks to move, causing a disaster.

What are landslides?

500

When a warm mass of air rolls into a cold mass of air, that is called a ________________ , and it can cause _____________________________________.

Warm Front

many days of light precipitation.