Bell Work
Atmospheric terms
Layers of the Atmosphere
World Map and Compass Points
Bell Work part two
100

This imaginary line divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

What is the equator?

100

This is the name for a thin layer of gasses surrounding the Earth.

What is atmosphere?

100

We live in this atmospheric layer.

What is the troposphere?

100

This is the starting point for measuring east and west around the Earth.

What is the Prime Meridian?


100

This is a cove of water indented into the land on 3 of the 4 sides.

What is a gulf?

200

This is not a a state: Rhode Island, Louisiana, Sacramento, Montana.

What is Sacramento?

200

This is the name for water in its gaseous form.

What is water vapor?
200

Weather occurs in this layer of the atmosphere.

What is the troposphere?


200

This is the Earth's northernmost circle of latitude where the Sun can be seen directly overhead.

What is the Tropic of Cancer?

200

Name the 5 Great Lakes.

What are lakes Heron, Michigan, Superior, Erie, and Ontario?

300

Fill in the blank of oceans, listed from largest to smallest: Pacific, Atlantic, _______, Arctic.

What is Indian?

300

This is the name for the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of particles within matter.

What is convection?

300

This layer of the atmosphere is above the stratosphere and is made up of particles called ions.

What is the ionosphere?

300

This is the northern most point int he world.

What is the North Pole?

300

This is the capital of Alaska.

What is Juneau?
400

This contains information on the symbols on a maps meaning.

What is a legend or a key?

400

The pressure that a column of air exerts on anything below is called this.

What is air pressure?

400

Ozone is found is this layer.

What is the stratosphere?

400

Central America belongs to this continent.

What is North America?


400

Which has more land, the southern polar region or the northern polar region.

What is the southern polar region?

500

This is the name given to a point of land extending into a body of water.

What is a cape?

500

Heat rising over a mountain, meeting cold air, then settling below in a valley is called this.

What is a mountain wave?


500
This is the uppermost layer of the atmosphere.
What is the exosphere?



500

These four continents touch the Indian Ocean?

What are Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica?

500

The international date line passes through this ocean.

What is the Pacific?