Atmosphere
Clouds/Precipitation
Weather Systems
Weather Data
Global Warming
100
Which gas is the most common in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen
100
What type of precipitation: Large ice pellets that fall to the ground as they moved up and down through freezing air for long stretches of time.
Hail
100
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather is defined as the SHORT-TERM variations in atmospheric phenomena that interact with the environment.
Climate is the LONG-TERM average of variations in weather for a particular area.
100
What tool measures humidity?
Hygrometer
100
What is global warming? (Be specific)
increase of the average temperature on Earth.
- change in CLIMATE
200
What layer of the atmosphere is ozone located?
Stratosphere
200
How are clouds classified?
By their shape and altitude at which they form
200
What is this image showing?
Cold front
200
What is the name of the tool used to gather upper-atmospheric data?
Radiosonde
200
What is a cause of global warming?
deforestation and burning of fossil fuels
300
What level of the atmosphere do shooting stars occur?
Mesosphere
300
What is the name of the low cloud that is sheetlike?
stratus
300
Which type of wind system generally brings in cold air?
Polar easterlies
300
True or False: Long term predictions of weather are the most accurate
False
300
Temperature changes are directly related to the presence of what gas in the atmosphere?
CO2
400
What is the term for the measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a material?
Temperature
400
The name for the small particle in the atmosphere around which water droplets can form is called a/an
condensation nuclei
400
A large body of air that takes on the moisture and temperature characteristics of the area over which it forms is called a/an _______________
air mass
400
__________________use infrared, visible-light, or water vapor imaging to observe and monitor changing weather conditions on Earth.
Weather satellites
400
Explain the greenhouse effect
Keeps the temperatures on Earth warm, stable and just right for life
500
What happens to the air pressure and temperature when you go up in the troposphere?
they both decrease
500
What type of cloud would an altocumulus cloud be?
- Low
-Middle
-High
Middle
500
_____________affect the intensity of weather systems by moving air of different temperatures from one region of Earth to another because they are fast-moving
Jet streams
500
What drives the earth’s weather?
Distribution of solar radiation
500
Name and explain an effect of global warming
Glacier wasting - melting of glaciers in glacier national park
methane time bomb - methane underground being released as ice melts
Ocean acidification - The pH in the ocean is dropping which prevents some important species from making their shells.
The three main reasons warming causes global sea level to rise are: oceans expand, ice sheets lose ice faster than it forms from snowfall, and glaciers at higher altitudes melt.
Coral Bleaching - under stress of warmer waters expel their symbiotic algae making the coral white. If the water doesn’t cool, algae will not re-colonize and coral will die.
Decrease in Phytoplankton - Since 1950, the world’s phytoplankton has decreased by 40%. Phytoplankton is the base of all ocean food webs and produces more than half of the world’s oxygen.
Sea levels rise due to oceans expanding, ice sheets lose ice faster than it forms from snowfall, and glaciers at higher altitudes melt