Water cycle
What is the water cycle powered by?
the sun
What are the 4 main front types?
warm, cold, occluded, stationary.
What layer has the most gases in it?
Troposphere
___________ is a day to day condition of the air around us in a short time span.
Weather
What are the 4 types of air masses?
Maritime polar, maritime tropical, continental polar, continental tropical
(6th grade level)
What are the stages of the water cycle?
Evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, runoff, infiltration
When a front stops moving and you have clouds, rain, or snow for a long period of time.
What is a stationary front?
What are the layers of the atmosphere in order from Earth to Space?
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Exosphere
___________ is the condition of the air around us in a very long time span.
Climate
What is the warmest air mass?
Tropical
Daily Double!!!
1. ________ is where water get absorbed through plants and the water gets turned into a vapor through the leaves.
2. ________ is when a liquid turns to a vapor.
1. Transpiration
2. Evaporation
a ______ front is when a warm air mass goes over or covers a cold air mass moving in the same direction. There is steady light rain where the temperature rises and the pressure drops.
Warm Front
What layer is between stratosphere and thermosphere and is the coldest?
Mesosphere
What can come from clouds?
Precipitation
Water in the form of rain, sleet, snow, hail or mist.
What happens when 2 air masses meet?
The air masses don't mix and cause weather events like tornadoes or thunderstorms over land and hurricanes over the ocean.
What happens when precipitation becomes ground water?
infiltration
A front that quickly slides under a warm air mass and produces violent thunderstorms. The temperature drops and the pressure rises leaving a steady light rain or snow with cool clear skies.
What is a cold front?
What layer are sometimes referred to part of the thermosphere?
Exosphere and can include the Ionosphere
(a very active part of the atmosphere, and it grows and shrinks depending on the energy it absorbs from the Sun)
What two factors help to create weather?
It is caused by the unequal heating of the Earth by the sun and movement of the air due to the Coriolis Effect.
What causes air masses to move?
Wind and air currents cause an air mass to move. These are caused by the unequal heating of the Earth by the Sun and the Coriolis Effect.
Does the amount of water in the water cycle ever change?
No. It remains constant though it is in different stages constantly.
What kind of weather does the each weather fronts bring?
Cold - Thunderstorms
Warm - Steady/Light Rain
Stationary - Longer steady rain
Occluded - mixed steady rain to heavy
What happens to the temperature and pressure in each layers of the atmosphere as we increase in altitude?
The temperature changes to the opposite of the layer just before it.
The pressure decreases as you go further toward space because there are not as many gasses/is not as much density to cause pressure.
What do meteorologist study to predict weather?
Air Mass movement and conditions such as:
wind direction, temperature, pressure, humidity, clouds, and precipitation.
How long can air masses control the weather?
From the hour to hour or up to months.