Cloud Nine
Clue: Thin, wispy clouds high up in the atmosphere.
Answer: What are cirrus clouds?
Clue: Lines on a weather map that connect points of equal atmospheric pressure.
Answer: What are isobars?
Clue: The primary reason Earth experiences changing seasons.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis as it orbits the Sun?
High-pressure systems marked with an 'H' on a map bring this type of weather.
What is clear, sunny, or fair weather?
The Earth sphere made up of all solid landforms, rocks, soil, and interior layers.
What is the geosphere (or lithosphere)?
Clue: Fluffy, cotton-like mid-level clouds typically associated with fair weather.
Answer: What are cumulus clouds?
Clue: This type of front brings gradual warming and gentle, light rain.
Answer: What is a warm front?
Clue: The difference between weather and climate is that weather measures daily short-term conditions, while climate tracks this.
Answer: What are long-term averages/patterns of atmospheric conditions?
Low-pressure systems marked with an 'L' on a map bring this type of weather.
What is cloudy, wet, or stormy weather?
The Earth sphere that contains all liquid water, ice caps, and water vapor.
What is the hydrosphere?
Clue: Low-level clouds that look like flat, grey sheets and bring overcast, drizzly conditions.
Answer: What are stratus clouds?
Clue: Rapid temperature drops, thunderstorms, and heavy rain are followed by clear, cool air after this front passes.
Answer: What is a cold front?
Why it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere when it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Southern Hemisphere tilting away from the Sun (receiving less direct solar radiation)?
A sample with a mass of 60 g occupying a volume of 20 mL has this density.
What is 3.0gML
When a fast-flowing river wears down solid canyon rock over thousands of years, these two spheres interact.
What are the hydrosphere and geosphere?
Clue: Tall, dark, multi-level clouds that produce severe thunderstorms and turbulent weather.
Answer: What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Clue: On a weather map station model, cloud coverage over a city is shown by this.
Answer: What is the amount of shading inside the city's circle model?
Clue: The specific time of year in the Northern Hemisphere when days have the absolute most hours of daylight.
Answer: What is the summer solstice?
A block with a known density of 5g/mL and a mass of 50 g occupies this much volume.
What is 10ML
What spheres are interacting during a stationary front?
What is hydrosphere and atmosphere?
Clue: Clouds form through this 3-step atmospheric process involving temperature and water vapor.
Answer: What is warm air rising, expanding, and cooling to its dew point?
Clue: Chicago had a wind barb pointing up and to the right, which direction is the wind coming from?
Answer: What is Northeast
Clue: Carbon dioxide causes global climate change primarily through this mechanism.
Answer: What is trapping infrared heat radiated from Earth's surface?
The specific temperature to which air must cool to become fully saturated, causing water vapor to condense into liquid.
What is the dew point?
Major human activity that releases greenhouse gases directly into the atmosphere.
What is burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas)?