Air & Atmosphere
What is the most common gas in Earth’s air?
What is nitrogen?
What mainly causes weather to change?
What is the movement of air and temperature changes?
Which clouds are thin, wispy, and high in the sky?
What are cirrus clouds?
Air moves from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure. What does this create?
What is wind?
Air contains nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, and carbon dioxide. What does this make it?
What is a mixture of gases?
What do we call the layer of gases surrounding Earth?
What is the atmosphere?
What causes Earth’s 4 seasons?
What is Earth’s tilt as it orbits the Sun?
What do cirrus clouds often mean?
What is that a weather change is coming soon?
Why is air able to move around Earth easily?
What is because air is transparent and easy to move through?
What gas in the air absorbs energy from sunlight?
What is carbon dioxide?
Air is mostly nitrogen and oxygen. What does this make it?
What is a mixture?
What type of weather often occurs when warm and cold air meet?
What is a storm?
Which clouds bring thunder and lightning?
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Strong winds can sometimes cause what?
What are terrible storms?
When water changes into gas and becomes part of the air, what is this called?
What is evaporation?
Why does air pressure decrease as you go higher in the atmosphere?
What is fewer gas particles / lower concentration of gases?
What is the name for the condition of the air at a certain time and place?
What is weather?
What cloud type is low and gray, covering the entire sky like a blanket?
What are stratus clouds?
Warm air rises and cool air sinks. What is this movement called?
What is convection?
Why do gases compress under high pressure in the deep ocean?
What is because the force pushes gas particles closer together?
Water vapor condensing in the atmosphere forms what?
What are clouds?
Why is winter colder?
What is because your part of Earth is tilted away from the Sun?
What cloud type is big and fluffy like cotton balls?
What are cumulus clouds?
What tool measures wind speed?
What is an anemometer?
Where is the concentration of gases extremely low—on Earth or in space?
What is in space?