TERMS
This term means the study of weather.
What is METEOROLOGY?
White fluffy clouds with flattened bottoms.
What is CUMULUS?
This is the middle layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is MESOSPHERE?
Evaporation, Condensation and Precipitation make up this water cycle.
What is the HYDROLOGIC Cycle.
Precipitation that occurs when the climate is cold.
What is SNOW?
This term refers to the day to day state of the atmosphere.
What is WEATHER?
Clouds that look a bit like layered strata.
What are STRATUS clouds?
Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide and ____________ make up the majority of gases in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
The process of water molecules falling to the earth as rain or snow.
What is PRECIPTIATION?
This storm is a result of electric molecules (static electricity) building up on ice crystals in the clouds.
What is a LIGHTNING storm?
This term defines the weather conditions over time.
What is CLIMATE?
These clouds form at high altitudes and are feathery in appearance.
What are CIRRUS clouds.
The five layers of the atmosphere are remembered by thinking of an astronaut asking for directions to outer space.
What is Traveling? Show Me the EXit!?
Clouds are formed by water vapor and _________ which allows the water to condense.
What is DIRT/DUST/ TINY MOLECULES?
This sound of Thunder is created when these bump into each other and create a huge shock wave of sound.
What are AIR MASSES?
The two regions of the Atmosphere are the heterosphere and homosphere, this layer acts as a boundary to divide them.
What is the TURBOPAUSE?
This is created when moist ai cools down by the ground at night.
What is FOG?
This is the first layer of the Atmosphere, closest to Earth.
What is TROPOSPHERE
This is the central downdraft of a Hurricane.
What is the Storm's EYE.
Tornadoes spin in this direction in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is COUNTERCLOCKWISE?
This is a force that is exerted onto a surface by the weight of the air molecules.
What is AIR PRESSURE?
Clouds form in four major ways as a result of _____ ____ cooling off.
What is WARM AIR?
In the Thermosphere, charged particles from space get trapped in Earth's magnetic field and are concentrated around the poles. While this is happening, they bump into molecules in the thermosphere and give energy to them. The energy is then shed as photons of light. In the Northern Hemisphere this has a famous name.
What is the Arora Borealis?
These are the seven conditions of the air that produce weather.
What is: Temperature, light, wind, humidity, air pressure, air quality and precipitation?
Tornadoes and Hurricanes spin in the same direction depending on which hemisphere they are in. This is known as the _____________ effect.
What is the CORIOLIS effect?