Atmosphere
Climate
Clouds and Precipitation
Storms
Photosynthesis and Respiration
100
Earth's atmosphere is made up of 78% of this element.
What is Nitrogen
100
The 10 hottest years on record have occurred during this time period
What are the Last 20 Years
100
The cycle that takes Water from Earth to the atmosphere and back.
What is the Water Cycle
100
This part of a storm is often very loud, but poses no threat.
What is Thunder
100
Light dependent reactions require this to work.
What is Sunlight
200
The Ozone layer is found in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Stratosphere
200
Found close to the Equator, these climate zones are popular vacation spots.
What are Tropical Zones
200
All forms of water that fall from clouds to the ground.
What is Precipitation
200
A violent, whirling column of air in contact with the ground.
What is a Tornado
200
This is the name of the pigment that plants use to harvest sunlight for energy.
What is Chlorophyll
300
The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves is known as this.
What is Radiation
300
When the North Pole points away from the Sun, this hemisphere experiences the season of Winter.
What is the Northern Hemisphere
300
This type of cloud is often associated to thunderstorms, and can extend thousands of meters up into the atmosphere.
What are Cumulonimbus Clouds
300
The tropics experience conditions ideal for the formation of these large, rotating, low-pressure storms.
What are Tropical Cyclones/Typhoons/Hurricanes
300
This is the name of the light-independent reaction in photosynthesis.
What is Calvin Cycle/ Dark Reaction
400
During the last 150 years, the burning of fossil fuels have released more and more of this chemical compound into the atmosphere, contributing to the greenhouse effect.
What is Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
400
Earth's maximum tilt angle, which Earth reaches every 41,000 years.
What is 23.5°
400
High clouds that often have a wispy, indistinct appearance.
What are Cirrus Clouds
400
Local air-mass thunderstorms that occur because land and water store and release heat energy differently.
What are Sea-breeze Thunderstorms
400
The correct chemical formula for Cellular Respiration.
500
This occurs when the amount of water vapor in a volume of air has reached the maximum amount possible for that temperature.
What is Saturation
500
This anomaly occurs every 7 to 8 years around Christmas time, and results in colder global temperatures and warmer water off of the western coast of South America.
What is El Niño.
500
The small particle in the atmosphere around which water droplets can form.
What is a Condensation Nucleus
500
The scale which ranks tornadoes according to their destruction and estimated wind speed; is used to classify tornadoes.
What is the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Damage scale
500
The correct chemical formula for Photosynthesis.
