Atmosphere & Air Pressure
What is the thin layer of gases surrounding Earth?
What is the atmosphere?
The movement of water between Earth's surface and the atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
Wind moves from ____ pressure to ____ pressure.
What is high pressure to low pressure?
The boundary where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
This is the lowest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
The two most abundant gases in Earth's atmosphere.
What are nitrogen & oxygen.
Evaporation occurs when liquid water is heated by this.
What is the sun?
Air mass has similar temperature, humidity, and ____.
What is air pressure?
List the four types of fronts.
What are cold, warm, stationary, and occluded?
This layer contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
This tool measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The temperature at which condensation begins.
What is the dew point?
Air masses are classified by these two factors?
What are temperature and humidity?
A cold front can cause heavy ____ and ____.
What are rain and thunderstorms?
This layer protects the Earth from meteors.
What is the mesosphere?
As altitude increase, this happens to air pressure.
What is decreases?
Humidity measures this in the air.
What is water vapor?
What are maritime air masses?
After a cold front passes, weather usually does this.
What is becomes cooler and clearer?
This is the highest layer in the atmosphere and our boundary with space.
What is the thermosphere?
The three ways heat transfers in the atmosphere.
What are conduction, convection, and radiation?
Rain is measured using this instrument?
What is a rain gauge?
These air masses form over land and have little moisture?
What are continental air masses?
An occluded front forms when this type of air mass gets trapped between two cold air masses.
What is warm air?
Put the layers of the atmosphere in order (from closest to the Earth to farthest to the Earth).
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere?