Water Cycle
What is evaporation of water from plants called?
What is transpiration?
On Mount Everest the temperature decreases as the altitude increases. The summit of this mountain is in which atmospheric layer?
What is Troposphere?
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
How do the conditions for a tornado differ from the conditions for a hurricane?
What is Tornadoes generally form over land, while hurricanes form over bodies of water.
What heats up faster, land or water?
What is land?
short term fluctuation of temperatures, precipitation, humidity, and wind for a certain geographic location
What is weather?
How many layers of the atmosphere are there?
What is 5?
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
What is the most abundant gas in the Atmosphere
What is Nitrogen?
An air mass in a valley travels up a mountainside. What causes the movement of this air?
Who is warming by solar energy re-radiated from the ground.
Daily Double
Daily Double
Where should you go if a tornado warning occur and you are at home?
What is the basement or the lowest level?
Warm air rises because it
What is, it expands and molecule particles spread out making it have a lower density than cool air.
What happens when a cold front comes into an area?
What is a cooler air mass moves into a warmer air mass, the cooler goes under and pushes up the warmer creating cumulus clouds and cumulonimbus clouds to bring rain and sometimes storms and cooler temps.
What is heat transfer through space without anything touching or anything moving?
What is radiation?
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
Which Layer will you find space shuttle flying?
What is Thermosphere?
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
Hurricanes are large, powerful storms that form as they travel over warm ocean waters. What do oceans add to make hurricanes so strong?
What are heat and moisture?
What happens during the daytime, a land breeze or a sea breeze, why?
What is a sea breeze bc land heats up faster and the air rises and then cooler FROM the sea replaces the rising air from the land?
What happens with a warm front-include temp of air masses, weather, and temps after?
What is a warm air mass moves into a cooler air mass and slides above it creating rain and warmer temps
What type of heat transfer happens when fluids (gases or liquids) warm and rise and cooler replace?
What is convection?
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
This layer is the coldest.
What is Mesosphere?
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
What happens to a hurricanes's strength when it travels over land?
What is decreases?
What type of air pressure system does a hurricane require to form?
What is a low pressure system.
What causes earthquakes?
what is plate tectonics?
What happens in an occluded front?
What is a cooler air mass moves into a warm air mass with a cooler air mass behind it, then the warm air is forced up and it rains for days .
What is the term for the human caused increase in global temperatures?
What is climate change?
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
List the layers in which the temperature increases as elevation increases.
What are Stratosphere and Thermosphere?
An area of high pressure will most likely result in which type of weather?
What is clear weather?
Where do hurricanes form?
in warm oceans
Where does the most damage occur with a hurricane"
What is when it first hits land with the storm surge?
What causes wind in the atmosphere and how does wind move? Be sure to include the terms high pressure and low pressure in your description.
What is unequal heating of the earth, and the spinning of the earth. Wind blow from high pressure-cooler air sinking to low pressure- warmer air risies.
What is a convection current?
What is when warm air rises and cooler air moves in to replace it creating a breeze, wind, or global wind.
the force applied to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.
What is pressure?