Layer of the Atmosphere
What are the layers of the atmosphere?
What isTroposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and the Exosphere?
Different forms of thermal energy?
What is Radiation, Conduction, and Convection?
What is wind?
What is movement of air from high to low pressure?
Where is most of Earth's water found?
What is the Ocean (salt water)?
What type of clouds are at a high altitude, thin, and wispy?
What are Cirrus clouds?
Which layer of the atmosphere did a man parachute from?
What is the transfer of energy by the movement of particles?
What is Convection?
What is it called when wind in the Northern Hemisphere curves right and in the Southern Hemisphere it curves left?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
What is a unique water property?
What is Surface Tension, Universal Solvent, Capillary Action, etc?
What part of the Water Cycle can plants contribute to?
What is transpiration?
Which layer of the atmosphere has the weather?
What is the transfer of energy by contact of particles?
What is Conduction?
What are three main types of clouds?
What are Cumulus, Stratus, and Cirrus?
What are the main processes in the Water Cycle?
What is Evaporation, Condensation, and Precipitation?
Dry air is 78% nitrogen, what is the other 21%?
What is Oxygen?
Layer that has projects us from meteoroids?
What is radiation?
What is the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves?
What are Polar Easterlies?
What is cold winds that blow from east to west near the Poles?
What is at the top of the Saturated Zone?
What is the Water Table?
What are some examples of freshwater wetlands?
What are marshes, bogs, and swamps?
As altitude increases..........
What is air pressure decreases?
Most of the energy that heats the Earth is .....
What is infrared radiation?
What are Global Winds?
What are blow steadily over long distance ( created by unequal heating, occur over large area, global wind belts)?
What is a type of underground water?
What is an Aquifer, Well, Artesian Well, Natural Spring, and Geyser?
What is as sunlight enters the atmosphere, it is converted to infrared radiation and is trapped by gases in the air?