What is revolution causes seasons and rotation causes day and night?
100
Any moisture that falls from the air to the Earth's surface?
What is precipitation?
100
What are the two most abundant gases in the atmosphere?
What is nitrogen and oxygen.
100
These are the 3 main types of global winds.
What are polar easterlies, westerlies, and the trade winds?
100
What is the direct transfer of heat from one substance to another substance that is touching called?
What is conduction.
200
Sea and land breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons
What are monsoons?
200
A Liquid Precipitation
What is rain?
200
Where is the ozone located in our atmosphere and what does it do?
The ozone is located in the stratosphere and it absorbs harmful UVB radiation from reaching Earth's surface.
200
A local wind that occurs during the day, and blows cooler air over the ocean towards the land.
What is sea breeze?
200
Name different examples or meanings for the word front.
What is a store front vs. a cold front.
300
What season is it in the Northern Hemisphere when the axis is tilted 23.5 degrees towards the sun?
Summer
300
The type of cloud that Hail forms in.
What is Cumulonimbus?
300
Why is the mesosphere important?
Protects earth from meteoroids
300
This is the time of day that mountain breezes occur.
What is at night?
300
Name a factor that affect temtperature
Latitude
Altitude
Distance from a large body of water
Ocean Currents
400
If we are experiencing summer, name a country experiencing winter at the same time.
Chile, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.
400
Raindrops that freeze when the touch a cold surface
What is freezing rain?
400
Two parts of the Thermosphere. Which one reflects radio waves and which holds satellites?
What are the Exosphere and ionosphere?
400
Calm areas where warm air rises.
What is Doldrums?
400
What is responsible for global wind patterns?
The uneven heating of earth’s surface
500
What would happen if the earth was not tilted on an axis?
Parts of the world would be in constant summer and the other parts would be in constant winter. There would not be a change in seasons and crops will burn or freeze to death :(
500
What are the 5 common types of precipitation?
rain, hail, snow, sleet, and freezing rain
500
What happens in the Troposphere?
Most clouds occur and cause rain, snow, storms, and other weather conditions.
500
The movement of air caused by difference in air pressure.