Atmosphere and Weather
What is meteorology?
This property of air is essentially a measure of how fast molecules are moving.
What is temperature?
What is nimbostratus?
This is the long-term average of weather over 30 years.
What is climate?
This geologist is called the Father of Modern Geology.
Who is James Hutton?
This scientist studies weather.
What is a meteorologist?
This tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer.
This process causes cloud formation when air rises and cools to its dew point.
What is condensation?
These two key factors determine climate.
What are temperature and pressure?
This principle says that in undisturbed layers, the oldest rocks are on the bottom and the youngest on top.
If the Earth were the size of an apple, this part would be as thin as the peel
What is the atmosphere?
What happens to atmospheric pressure as you go higher in altitude?
This type of cloud is tall, fluffy, and may produce thunderstorms.
What is cumulonimbus?
Who is Aristotle?
This type of fossil shows the activity of an organism, such as footprints or worm trails.
What is a trace fossil?
Name the four most abundant gases in the atmosphere
Nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide
The temperature at which air becomes saturated and water vapor condenses into liquid.
What is the dew point?
This type of air mass is warm and dry.
What is continental tropical?
This human activity is the main cause of increasing carbon dioxide levels.
What is burning fossil fuels?
This tool/method is used to determine the absolute age of rocks and fossils.
What is radiometric dating?
This layer of the atmosphere contains most of the atmosphere's mass and water vapor.
What is the troposphere
Why does sweating cool us down?
Because the water in sweat evaporates, drawing heat energy from the body
This front forms when a cold front overtakes a warm front.
What is an occluded front?
Name one possible effect of climate change mentioned in your notes.
Rising sea levels, more extreme weather, changes in precip, etc.
This kind of unconformity occurs when flat layers lie on top of tilted layers.
What is an angular unconformity?