What is a combination of gases, each layer with different temperature and pressure?
100
The 5 types of clouds are...
What is cirrus, fluffy, cumulonimbus, cumulus and stratus clouds?
100
The day-to-day condition of the atmosphere and the pattern that occurs in an area over a long time.
What is Weather and Climate (respectively)?
100
Some examples of landforms on Earth are...
What are mountains, plateaus, gorges, plains, valleys, ridges, and trenches?
100
This plate's movement causes valleys.
What is plates moving apart?
200
The layers of the atmosphere are...
What is the Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Troposphere?
200
This is the relationship between humidity and relative humidity
What is humidity: the amount of water vapor in the air. Relative humidity: the amount of water vapor the air actually contains, compares with the amount it could contain in a certain temperature?
200
This front produces light rain for several days.
What is stationary front?
200
Earth's layers are.
What is atmosphere, crust, mantle, outer core and inner core?
200
A trench form like this...
Plates move toward each other, and one plate slides under the other?
300
The gases that make up the atmosphere are...
What is nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gases?
300
These are 3 types of precipitation...
What is rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain or hail?
300
Tornadoes are difficult to predict because...
What is their quick formation, and their path can change very quickly?
300
Earth's plates are "invisible", because they are located...
What is under the oceans?
300
Pressure builds up along faults over time. Then pressure is suddenly released, causing...
What is an earthquake?
400
Thunderstorms would be found in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
400
Sleet and freezing rain are alike because...
Both leave clouds as rain, sleet forms when the air passes through colder air. Freezing rain forms when rain comes in contact with cold surface.
400
Small storm with strong winds, heavy rain, lightning and thunder.
What is a thunderstorm?
400
Earth's plates move because...
Convection currents move in a circular pattern in the mantle, so the plates floating on the mantle also move?
400
They occur near plate boundaries.
What are volcanoes?
500
This is the effect of temperature on air pressure.
What is the change as temperature increases, air pressure decreases?
500
Precipitation falling as rain or snow is determined like...
What is above-freezing temperature for rain, and below-freezing temperature for snow?
500
Hurracaines don't form over the oceans off the northeast and northwest coast of the US because...
What is the cool temperature of the water they present?
500
The source of heat that powers the convection currents is...
What is earth's hot core and inner mantle?
500
The difference between magma and lava is...
Magma is molten rock below earth's surface, lava is molten rock that has reached earth's surface?