Atmosphere
The layers of the atmosphere from closest to the earth to furthest
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?
A violent, whirling column of air in contact with the ground
What is a tornado?
Properties of air (name 3 of 6)
What is air takes up space, air exerts pressure, air has mass, warm air =more space, heat affects density, and air contains water?
The four types of air masses
What are maritime polar, maritime tropical, continental polar, and continental tropical?
The three main greenhouse gasses
What are carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide?
Important radiation blocking layer
What is the ozone layer?
The scale to measure tornadoes
What is the EF scale?
Refers to the weight of the Earth’s atmosphere pressing down on everything at the surface
What is air or atmospheric pressure?
This front brings clouds and drizzly rain, with hot temperature
What is a warm front?
Steps of the water cycle
What is condensation, evaporation, precipitation, transpiration, runoff?
Layer that is home to most human activity
What is the troposphere?
A spiraling storm with winds of 74 mph or higher that forms over warm, moist areas
What is a hurricane?
The formula for density
What is density=mass/volume?
Forms when when cold air moves under warm air and pushes the warm air up
What is a cold front?
The year Hurricane Katrina occurred
What is 2005?
The gas that makes up 78% of our atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
The state of the atmosphere over a long period of time
What is climate?
Air moves in this direction
What is from high to low pressure?
In this pressure system, air moves toward the center then upward; Air rises, cools and condenses into clouds, bringing precipitation
What is a low pressure system?
When water vapor changes from a gas to a liquid then clings to tiny particles such as dust
What is cloud formation?
The four main gases of the atmosphere
What are carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and argon?
What is a barometer?
The effect of altitude on air pressure and density
What is pressure and density decrease?
In this pressure system, air moves away from the center; Air is not rising to cool and condense into clouds, so it brings nice weather
What is a high pressure system?
This is a natural warming of both Earth’s lower ATM and Earth’s surface
What is the greenhouse effect?