Atmosphere & Meteorology
Water that escapes from the atmosphere is this.
What is precipitation?
This forms when ice and snow don't fully melt in the summer.
What is a glacier?
These are three kinds of fog.
What are radiation fog, advection fog, steam fog, valley fog, and upslope fog?
This is responsible for most of the winds on earth.
What is the sun?
This measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
Meteorology is the study of this.
What is the earth's atmosphere?
This is the overall pattern of weather conditions (temperature, precipitation) in a certain area.
What is climate?
Acid rain forms in these two ways.
What are power plants burning coal and automobiles burning petroleum?
This is formed when two air masses meet.
What is weather front?
Meteorologists use this tool to help them forecast the weather.
What are: thermometers, barometers, hygrometers, anemometers, rain gauges, weather balloons, radiosondes, weather satellites, and computers?
These four "ingredients" are needed to make weather.
What are sun, air, earth, and water?
The environmental conditions for an Ice Age were set up perfectly by this biblical catastrophe.
What is the Genesis Flood?
Clouds condense from this.
What is water vapor?
These two types of radar are used to detect severe weather and storms.
What are doppler and phased array radar?
As you go up in altitude, this will decrease.
What is air pressure?
This measures the ratio of the amount of water in the air compared to the amount of water the air could actually hold.
What is relative humidity?
These are the conditions in the atmosphere at a given time.
What is the weather?
Transpiration occurs when this happens.
What is when a person breathes?
The type of storm that can only form near the equator.
What is a hurricane?
This is the calculation using temperature and relative humidity.
What is heat index?
This is the correct order of the atmospheric levels starting closest to earth.
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?
Southeast Asia gets much of its rain from this.
What is the monsoon?
Water vapor enters the atmosphere primarily through this.
What is evaporation?
This type of wind is formed because of the temperature difference between the equator and the poles.
What are jet streams?
Calculations for wind chill use these two things.
What is temperature and wind speed?