Atmosphere
Plants need this gas to make food.
What is carbon dioxide?
Energy source that drives the water cycle.
What is solar energy?
Four types of precipitation.
What is rain, hail, snow, and sleet?
Device that measure temperature, usually contains a liquid that expands and rises as it gets hot.
What is a thermometer?
Process by which water vapor(a gas) turns to a liquid as a result of the cold atmosphere.
What is condensation?
Animals need this to breath.
What is oxygen?
Process by which liquid water becomes a gas.
What is evaporation?
What is air pressure?
Device that shows wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
Wispy, feathery clouds made of ice crystals that form at high levels. Usually signal stormy weather approaching.
What is cirrus?
Layer of oxygen found in the stratosphere that absorbs the suns radiation.
What is the ozone?
Process by which water vapor gathers together and becomes a cloud due to the cold atmosphere.
What is condensation?
A natural movement of any velocity.
What is wind?
Device that measures air pressure.
What is barometer?
What is cumulus?
Layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is troposphere?
Any form of water that falls from a cloud.
What is precipitation?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
Device that measures wind speed.
What is anemometer?
Clouds that form in flat layers, covering most of the sky.
What is stratus?
Process by which 50% of suns radiation is abosrbed by the earth and water and 50% is absorbed by the ozone and clouds.
What is Greenhouse Effect?
Mass of water changes as it turns from vapor to liquid.
What is change in density?
When a warm air mass is caught between 2 cold air masses, resulting in snow.
What is an occluded front?
Device that measures relative humidity.
What is sling psychrometer?
Fluffy, grey rain cloud.
What is cumulonimbus?