SPHERES
Atmosphere Layers
ALTITUDE/AIR PRESSURE
Miscellaneous
WEATHER VS. CLIMATE
100

This sphere contains air.

What is the atmosphere?

100

The number of layers in Earth's atmosphere. 

What is five layers? 

100

Increase in altitude results in ..............

lower air pressure. 

100

Gases that hold heat in the Earth's atmosphere. 

What is the green house effect? 

100

How hot or cold it is outside? 

What is the weather? 

200

This sphere has glaciers.

What is the Hydrosphere?

200

The first layer of the atmosphere. 

What is the Troposhere? 

200

When hiking up a mountain, the altitude gets ___________. 

higher

200

Rain, sleet, snow is called........

What is precipitation? 

200

Minute by minute changes in how hot or cold the temperature is. 

What is weather? 

300

This sphere has living things in it. 

What is the Biosphere?

300

The last layer of the atmosphere. 

What is the Exosphere? 


300

The amount of air that is pressing against an object is called.. 

What is air pressure?

300

A severe weather condition where there is too much water, where lots of damage happen. 

What is a flood? 

300

Water from the sky is called. ......

What is rain? 

400

This sphere has volcanoes in it. 

What is the Geosphere?

400

This is where airplanes fly. 

What is the Stratosphere? 

400

The higher the altitude, the harder/easier it is to breathe. 

harder

400

Very dry, no rain, and hot weather found in a desert. 

What is a drought? 

400

In Africa, the average temperature is 98 degrees. Is this weather or climate? 

What is climate? 

500

This sphere contains the climate. 

What is the Geosphere? 

500

This is where the space station is. 

What is the Thermosphere? 

500

The higher the air pressure, the _________  (higher/lower) the altitude goes. 

lower

500

Explain how the weather would be if we didn't have the greenhouse effect? 

-very cold

- all of the warm air would escape the Earth's atmosphere.

500

When air warms and rises, what happens to cold air? 

What is cold air sinking?