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Climate
Weather
Clouds Category
Changing Weather
Earth, Moon, and Sun
100
__________________ is the average weather of a place over many years.
What is climate?
100
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
100
___________ clouds are white and puffy.
What is cumulus?
100
What is an air mass?
A large body of air that has about the same conditions throughout.
100
How did people figure out that the earth was round before we could see pictures of it from space?
They noticed that the bottom parts of ships sailing over the horizon would disappear first.
200
____________________ is the main factor affecting climate.
What is latitude?
200
____________ air can hold more water vapor than cool air.
What is warm?
200
________________ clouds form high in the troposphere. Because it is so cold they are made of ice crystals. They are thin and wispy.
What is cirrus?
200
Name at least 3 types of fronts.
What are cold front, warm front, occluded front, stationary front?
200
Name one way the inner planets differ from the outer planets.
The inner planets are smaller, dense, and rocky. The outer planets are giant balls of swirling gas.
300
A coastal climate is _______________. It may also get plenty of rain.
What is mild?
300
___________________ refers to the conditions of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
What is weather?
300
Clouds are needed for precipitation. Name at least 3 types of precipitation.
What are snow, sleet, freezing rain, rain, and hail?
300
A _____________ is an episode of severe weather.
What is a storm?
300
________________ is the force of attraction between all objects. It keeps Earth and Moon in their orbits.
What is gravity?
400
T or F An inland climate has greater temperature extremes, and can also be very dry.
What is true?
400
The temperature at which water vapor condenses is called the _______ _____________.
What is dew point?
400
Explain how clouds can affect the temperature on the Earth's surface during the day.
The thick clouds can block some of the sun's rays. This keeps the surface from heating up as much as it would on a clear day.
400
During a thunderstorm, some parts of a thunderhead become negatively charged. Other parts become positively charged. The difference in charge creates ______________.
What is lightning?
400
This is created by the movements of molten metal in Earth's outer core.
What is magnetic field?
500
Mountains can cast a _________________. As winds rise up a mountain the air cools and precipirations falls. On the other side of the range the air is dry and it sinks.
What is a rain shadow?
500
Weather occurs because of unequal heating of the atmosphere. The source of the heat is the _____________.
What is sun?
500
Explain how clouds can affect the temperature on the Earth's surface during the night.
Thick clouds prevent heat from radiating out into space. This keeps the surface warmer than it would on a clear night.
500
Why do you always hear the boom of thunder after you see the flash of lightning?
Because light travels faster than sound.
500
Explain why we have seasons?
The Earth is tilted on its axis. The hemisphere that is tilted away from the Sun is cooler because it receives less direct rays. As Earth orbits the Sun, the Northern Hemisphere goes from winter to spring, then summer and fall. The Southern Hemisphere does the opposite from summer to fall to winter to spring.