Water Cycle
Evaporation of water from plants is called?
Transpiration
On Mount Everest the temperature decreases as the altitude increases. The summit of this mountain is in which atmospheric layer?
Troposphere
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
Most common type of storm.
Thunderstorm
What heats up faster, land or water?
Land
Any significant change in the climate of Earth
Climate Change
The process of water changing into an invisible gas
Evaporation
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen
The energy source for movement of wind and air masses.
Rain, snow and sleet are examples of?
Precipitations
What will happen if air becomes warm? Is it rises or sinks?
Rise.
What is heat transfer through space without anything touching or anything moving?
Radiation
This is the term referred as the amount of water vapor in the air
Humidity
Which Layer will you find space shuttle flying?
Thermosphere
Instrument that shows wind direction.
Wind vane
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What happens during the daytime, a land breeze or a sea breeze?
Sea breeze
Earth's surface is warm due to this atmospheric process.
Greenhouse effect
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
Condensation
This layer is the coldest.
Mesosphere
Measures wind speed
Anemometer
A term to describe a weather disturbance located in Atlantic Ocean.
Hurricane
The water is slower to heat up during the day and slower to cool off so the air is warmer over the water and rises, then the cooler air from the land replaces it. What will be the effect of this condition?
Land breeze
Periodic warming in sea surface across Pacifics.
El Nino
A water resource that is found underground
Groundwater
List one of the two layers in which the temperature increases as elevation increases.
Stratosphere and Thermosphere
An area of high pressure will most likely result in which type of weather?
Clear weather
Where do hurricanes specifically form?
in warm oceans
What are the 2 phenomena that cause the air movement or wind in the atmosphere?
Unequal heating of earth and earth's rotation
Name the whole abbreviation: CFC
Chlorofluorocarbons