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Water/Weather
Water/Weather
Water/Weather
Water/Weather
Water/Weather
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The atmosphere
What is the layer of gases that surround the Earth?
100
The two most abundant gases in the atmosphere
What is nitrogen and oxygen?
100
Water vapor is water in the form of ____________.
What is a gas?
100
Earth's atmosphere is important to living things because it ____________________________________________.
What is ..It provides all the gases that living things need to survive?
100
Instruments used to measure air pressure are called_________________.
What are barometers?
200
From Earth to space, the main layers in our atmosphere are ___________, ___________, ______________, &______________.
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, & thermosphere?
200
The layer of our atmosphere in which weather occurs is called the ___________________.
What is the troposphere?
200
THe ozone layer protects living things on Earth from __________________ _______________.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
200
Which layer of the atmosphere protects Earth's surface from being hit by most meteroids?
What is the mesosphere?
200
Most air pollution comes from doing what?
What is burning fossil fuels?
300
One thing people in the United States could do to reduce arir pollution is __________________________________.
What is use more public transportation?
300
Water is the only substance on Earth that _______________________________________________.
What is....Commonly exists in all of it's different states
300
Plants use water to _____________________________.
What is make their own food?
300
Approximately ________ percentage of Earth's water is fresh water.
What is 3 percent?
300
Wetlands act as a natural ___________.
What are filters?
400
Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers is called _____________.
What is groundwater?
400
Water that falls to the Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail is called _________________.
What is precipitation?
400
The total amount of water on Earth is fairly _________________.
What is consistent?
400
The streams and small rivers that feed into a main river are called __________________.
What are tributaries?
400
Materials that allow water to pass through them easily are _________________.
What is permeable?
500
An underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water is called an ________________.
What is an aquifer?
500
When a rapidly moving cold air mass overtakes a slow-moving warm air mass, the result is a(n) ___________ _________.
What is a cold front?
500
When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and niether can move the other, the result is a(n) ___________ __________.
What is a stationary front?
500
Lake -effect snow forms by ______________________________________.
What is cold, dry air blows over large lakes and then over land.
500
Scientists who study weather and try to predict it are called ______________.
What are meterologists?