Under (Air) Pressure
True or false: Air pressure changes cause winds?
What is True?
Which instrument measures wind speed?
What is an anemometer?
Weather occurs in which layer?
What is the troposphere?
What is it called when the sun transfers heat?
What is radiation?
There are harmful substances in the air, water, and soil. What are they called?
What are pollutants?
What instrument is used to measure air pressure?
What is a barometer?
What causes winds?
What is the difference in air pressure?
In the troposphere, what 3 things decrease as altitude increases?
What are air pressure, temperature, and air density?
What is it called when heat is transferred by fluids (gases and liquids)?
What is convection?
What gas varies in different places and at different times?
What is water vapor?
Air has mass, volume, and what?
What is density?
Which direction does an East wind blow?
The ozone is in which layer?
What is the stratosphere?
What do we call heat transfer by direct contact (touching)?
What is conduction?
What two gases makeup approximately 99% of Earth's atmosphere?
What are nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%)?
True or false: Altitude affects air pressure and density?
At what time of day does a sea breeze occur?
What is daytime?
True or false: The Northern Lights occur in the stratosphere?
What do we call the phenomena where the gases trap in heat?
What is the greenhouse effect?
What measurement describes the amount of mass in a volume of matter?
What is density?