Atmosphere Layers
What layer is closest to the Earth?
What is the troposphere?
Definition: how much it rained or snowed
What is precipitaiton?
Short-term changes in the atmosphere
What is weather?
What is climate?
What is "the long-term patterns of weather in any given area?"
Why does the Sun appear to move across the sky?
What is "Earth's rotation?"
What layer does weather occur in?
how fast the air is moving past an observation point
What is wind speed?
Describes what the weather is like over a long period of time in a specific area
What is climate?
What climate zone do we live in?
What is temperate climate zone?
What is the only star in our solar system?
What is "the Sun?"
What layer is the ozone layer found?
What is the stratosphere?
a weather instrument that measures wind direction
What is a wind vane?
Who is a scientist who studies and predicts weather?
What is a meteorologist?
Where can you find a polar climate?
What is the difference between rotation and revolution?
Rotation is spinning on an axis. Revolution is moving around another object in a circular path.
What layer is the thickest?
What is the Thermosphere?
the force exerted on a surface by the mass of the air above it
What is air made of?
Where are most of the tropical climates found?
What is "along the equator?"
What causes the seasons to change?
What is "the Earth's tilt?"
Why is the ozone layer so important?
What is "it absorbs harmful UV rays from the sun?"
a weather instrument that measures air pressure
What is a barometer
Air is ___________ and takes up _________.
What is "matter" and "space?"
What two factors influence climate the most?
What is precipitation and temperature?
What would happen to the planets if there was no gravity?