Layers of the Atmosphere
Weather Vocabulary
Weather vs. Climate
Climate Zones
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What is the first layer of the atmosphere?
This layer is closest to Earth.
Troposphere
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The amount of water vapor in the air is...
a. temperature
b. atmosphere
c. humidity
c. humidity
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What is the definition of weather?
Weather is the atmospheric conditions at a specific time.
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What happens to the temperature as you get closer to the equator?
The temperature gets warmer. It gets more hot.
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When water hits the earth it is called?
a. clouds
b. wind
c. rainfall
c. rainfall
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What layer of the atmosphere is mainly made of ozone?
Stratosphere
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The weight of the air on Earth's surface is...
a. atmospheric pressure
b. wind
c. humidity
a. atmospheric pressure
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What is the definition of climate?
Climate is the weather conditions over 30 years.
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Can you point to the cold zones?
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What is the word that describes the height above sea level?
a. altitude
b. latitude
a. altitude
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What layer of the atmosphere is in between the stratosphere and thermosphere?
Mesosphere
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What is the word that describes the total amount of thermal energy?
Temperature
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Is this weather or climate?
Today is sunny and warm.
Weather
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What climate zone is Spain in?
a. cold zone
b. temperate zone
c. warm zone
b. temperate zone
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What is word that describes the distance from the equator?
a. latitude
b. altitude
latitude
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What layer of the atmosphere is where weather occurs?
Troposphere
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What are examples of precipitation?
a. sunshine and wind
b. liquid water, hail or snow
c. high temperatures and humidity
b. liquid water, hail, or snow
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Is this weather or climate?
In the past 30 years, Seville has been warm and sunny.
Climate
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In the warm zone are temperatures high or low?
temperatures are high
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Which weather phenomena is this?
thunder and lightning
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What are three layers of the atmosphere where it is impossible to breathe?
mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere
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What is the tool to measure precipitation?
pluviometer
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Is this weather or climate?
Right now, it is thundering and lightning outside.
Weather
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Which one is a characteristic of the cold zone?
a. high temperatures
b. different seasons
c. winter for almost the whole year
c. winter for almost the whole year
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What happens to the temperature the higher up you are?
the temperature goes down.
it gets colder.