Vocabulary
What is precipitation?
What is water vapor that has condensed from clouds to fall as liquid (rain) or solids (snow, hail).
When water evaporates it becomes this.
What are clouds
Which layer of the atmosphere does weather occur?
What is the troposphere.
Which color of visible light has the longest wavelength?
What is red.
What are the two difference kinds of local wind?
What are Sea Breeze and Land Breeze.
What occurs at night when cooler air moves from the land to sea?
What are land breezes.
What is weather?
The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
Which step of the water cycle does water return to Earth's surface?
What is precipitation.
Which layer of the Earth's atmosphere contains the ozone layer?
What is the stratosphere.
Do x-rays, infrared waves, or microwaves have the shorter wavelength than visible light?
The horizontal movement of air caused by differences in uneven heated air is called what?
What is wind.
What occurs when a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet, but they push at each other and neither one can move?
What is a stationary front.
What is the force of air molecules pushing on an area called?
What is air pressure.
When warm air rises and cold air cannot hold water vapor what stage of the water cycle is this?
What is condensation.
As you increase in altitude what happens to the air pressure?
What is it decreases.
What is the weather condition of a particular area over an extended period of time?
What is climate.
When the Earth rotates, how does this motion affect global winds?
What is it causes the winds to curve.
What can be defined as a large volume of air that has nearly the same temperature and humidity at different locations at the same altitude.
What is air mass.
The water cycle is driven by this.
What is the sun.
Which gas makes up most of Earth's atmosphere?
What is nitrogen.
Identify the three main gasses from most to least that can be found in Earth's atmosphere.
What are nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%), and carbon dioxide (less than 1%).
Trade winds, easterlies, and westerlies are considered this.
What are the major global winds belts.
Areas with high pressure will result in this possible weather.
The invisible form of energy with wavelengths shorter than violet light are?
What are ultraviolet radiation.
Water that sinks below the surface, but moves towards the ocean is called this?
What is ground water.
What are the two layers of the thermosphere?
What are the ionosphere and the exosphere.
The suns energy travels to Earth as this, which are waves classified according to wavelength or distance between the waves.
What are electromagnetic waves.
What is created by the unequal heating of Earth's surface?
What are global winds.
This system has air moving in an upward flow, which can bring precipitation.
What is a low pressure system.