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Atmosphere
Water Cycle
Fronts and Air Masses
Storms
Vocab
100
The layers of the atmosphere are divided by this.
What is a change in temperature?
100
The movement of water throughout the atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere.
What is the water cycle?
100

When a warm air mass and a cold air mass stall out over an area, drizzly rain results for DAYS.  What front results?

What is a stationary front?

100
A violent disruption in the atmosphere.
What is a storm?
100
A scientist that studies the weather.
Who is a meteorologist?
200
You and your dog Curtis are found in this layer.
What is the troposphere?
200
The process by which liquid water turns into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
A Maritime Polar air mass have these characteristics in temperature and humidity.
What is moist and cold air?
200

A cold air mass violently collides with a warm air mass causing a major convection cell in the atmosphere.  What is the result of this disturbance?

What is thunder storm?

200

Isobars are lines found on weather maps show differences in what factor when considering air movement and flow?

What is air pressure?

300

This layer is the coldest layer.  Meteors burn up in this layer

What is the Mesosphere?

300
The driving force behind the water cycle.
What is the Sun?
300
This front is represented on a weather map as a blue triangles on a line.
What is cold front?
300
This storm occurs when a swirling funnel shaped cloud touches down onto Earth's surface.
What is a tornado?
300
The sphere of gas that surrounds the planet.
What is the atmosphere?
400

The ozone layer is found in this layered layer.

What is the Stratosphere.

400

Air's ability to hold water depends on this.

What is the temperature of the air?

400

Since the air mass have different amounts of moisture and different temperatures this leads to the formation of these.

What are fronts?

400

Warm ocean water fuels this type of storm. Generally form near the equator and move up towards the Gulf of Mexico due to the jet streams.

What are hurricanes?

400
The Northern Lights are found in this layer of the atmosphere. Be specific!
What is the ionosphere?
500

This layer has the Ionosphere in it where the auroras glow brilliantly in the polar skies.

What the Thermosphere?

500

The water cycle is a heat transfer activity.  What type of heat transfer is primarily responsible for the cycling of water?

What are convections currents?

500

Maritime Polar, Maritime Tropical, Continental Polar, Continental Tropical?

What are the air masses?

500

Most storms form from this type of front

What is a cold front?

500

This term describes how winds curve in the differing hemispheres due to the Earth's rotation.

What is the Coriolis Effect?