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Cloudy
Rainy
Snowy
Sunny
Breezy
100
This helps break down nitrogen in soil?
Bacteria
100
What is the scientific tem for "to breathe in"?
Inhale
100
What is harmful for people to breathe but it portects the earth?
ozone
100
What gas makes up 78% of the earth's atmosphere?
nitrogen
100
What causes hail to form?
rain being lifted up into the clouds and freezing
200
What do we call the distance from sea level up into the sky?
altitude
200
Name the process that plants use to make food?
photosynthesis
200
What does the atmsophere absorb?
ultraviolet rays
200
What is the process by which scientists believe that the earth's temperature is rising?
global warming
200
What are thick,layered clouds called?
stratus
300
What is the scientific word for breaking things down?
Decomposition
300
What might be changed by global warming?
ecosystems
300
What grows well in a greenhouse?
plants
300
What do animals need nitrogen to build?
proteins
300
When rain falls and freezes it is called this?
sleet
400
What does the atmosphere regulate?
temperature
400
What effect deals with letting in air and trapping heat?
greenhouse effect
400
What holds the atmosphere in place?
gravity
400
What type of clouds are thin and wispy?
cirrus
400
What are puffy white clous with gray bottoms called?
cumulus
500
What breaks down nitrogen in the atmosphere?
Lightning
500
What is the name of the air that surrounds the earth?
atmosphere
500
What does the greenhouse effect keep stable?
climates
500
What happens when cumulus clouds build up?
thunderstorms
500
What do we call a low-lying stratus cloud?
fog