this happens during a storm when currents flow between regions of opposite electrical charge
What is lightning?
100
the amount of water vapor present in the air is called...
What is humidity?
100
the type of wind is a movement of air toward water
What is a land breeze?
100
this gas makes up about 78% of the atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
200
the layers of the atmosphere in order from closest to Earth to furthest
What is Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere?
200
this results from the rapid heating of air around a bolt of lightning
What is thunder?
200
the temperature at which air is saturated and condensation forms is the...
What is dew point?
200
the global winds that affect weather in the U.S.
What are westerlies?
200
the rotation of Earth causes moving air and water to appear to turn to the right north of the equator and to the left south of the equator is called...
What is the Coriolis Effect?
300
the temperature in the mesosphere____________with altitude (decreases or increases)
What is decreases?
300
this is a violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground
What is a tornado?
300
these are made of water droplets and dust, and form as warm air is forced upward, expands, and cools
What are clouds?
300
narrow belts of strong winds near the top of the troposphere
What are jet streams?
300
this causes a brown haze near cities
What is car exhaust?
400
these layers are the first to receive the Sun's rays
What is thermosphere and exosphere?
400
a large, swirling, low-pressure system that forms over the warm Atlantic Ocean
What is a hurricane?
400
this determines whether water forms rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is air temperature?
400
winds found near the poles
What are polar easterlies?
400
the measure of the average value of the kinetic energy of molecules in motion
What is temperature?
500
the space shuttle orbits Earth in this layer
What is exosphere?
500
a winter storm where the winds are 56 km/h, the temperature is low, the visibility is less than 400 m in falling or blowing snow
What is a blizzard?
500
the state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place
What is weather?
500
differences in density and air pressure cause...
What is wind?
500
air pressure near the Earth is ____________than it is near the top of the atmosphere (greater or less)