Layers of the atmosphere
Measuring & Reporting weather
Global weather patterns
Local weather patterns
Christmas Weather
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This is the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth
What is the Troposphere
100
This is the instrument used to measure temperature
What is a thermometer?
100
This is the region of the earth that gets the most direct sunlight.
What is the equator?
100
High pressure systems give this kind of weather.
What are clear, sunny skies.
100
This is the kind of pressure system that the wisemen must have experienced so that there were clear skies to see the star of david.
What is high pressure?
200
This is the layer of the atmosphere where planes fly.
What is the stratosphere?
200
This is the instrument used to measure precipitation
What is a rain gauge
200
This is the direction that wind travels past Hawaii, and generally all around the globe between the equator and 30 degrees latitude.
What is East to West
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What is NorthEast to SouthWest
200
A cold front would give this kind of weather.
What are intense thunderstorms.
200
This is the type of front that would cause severe blizzards and winter storms.
What is a cold front.
300
This is the layer of the atmosphere furthest from the Earth, that gradually fades off into space.
What is the exosphere
300
The type of front designated by this symbol:
What is a cold front symbol?
300
This is the reason the air near the ground is warmer than the air higher in the troposphere.
What is the ground's absorption of the Sun's energy?
300
Wind always travels towards this type of pressure.
What is low pressure?
300
This is the kind of front that would cause a consistent snowfall, good for skiing in the mountains.
What is a warm front?
400
These two layers of the atmosphere get colder as you increase altitude (get further away from Earth).
What are the troposphere and the Mesosphere
400
The type of WEATHER indicated by this symbol:
What is clear, sunny skies and cool air?
400
This is which side of the equator (North or South) that air would be rising the most during June/July because of the Sun's most direct energy.
What is north?
400
This temperature of air is less dense, and rises above other air masses.
What is warm/hot air?
400
This is the temperature in Celsius that it has to be for water to freeze, in order to make snow instead of rain.
What is 0 degrees C?
500
This is the reason the stratosphere gets warmer as you increase altitude.
What is the ozone layer absorbing the sun's energy?
500
This is the symbol on a weather map that would show several days of intermittent rain or fog.
What is the Stationary front symbol:
500
This is the reason global winds like tradewinds don't travel straight north/south, but instead bend to the east/west.
What is the spin of the earth?
500
This is how rainstorms are created.
What is warm, moist air rising and condensing to form rain.
500
This is the season of the year that Jesus was most likely actually born in.
What is early spring, because the sheep were lambing.
600
This is the reason there is less turbulence in the stratosphere.
What is - "the air is a more uniform density because it is farther away from the temperature and humidity effects of Earth"?
600
An instrument used to measure wind speed and direction.
What is an anemometer?
600
This is the typical pressure system found at the north and south pole due to convection cells.
What is high pressure?
600
This is the type of front that makes fog and several days of intermittent rain.
What is a stationary front?
600
The type of pressure system currently over Missouri and Oklahoma according to the weather map below.
What is High Pressure