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The Atmosphere
Weather Factors
Weather Patterns
Climate
Facts
100
The envelope of gases that surround our planet.
What is the atmosphere?
100
This is the condition of the Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
100
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere.
What is a storm?
100
The number of major Ice Ages that have been on the Earth.
What is 5?
100
Harmful particles and substances found in our air, water, and soil.
What are pollutants?
200
A form of oxygen that has three oxygen atoms instead the usual two.
What is ozone?
200
The percentage of the Sun's energy that reaches the Earth's surface.
What is 50% of the Sun's energy?
200
This occurs when electricity jumps within clouds, between clouds or between clouds and the ground.
What is lightning?
200
These can be formed when there is an underwater earthquake or volcano.
What is a tsunami?
200
The movement of water between the atmosphere and the Earth's surface.
What is the water cycle?
300
Clouds form when this condenses out of the air.
What is water vapor?
300
The instrument used to measure air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
300
An instrument used to measure changes in the air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
Cold periods during history during which glaciers covered large parts of the Earth's surface.
What is an ice age?
300
A form of water that falls from the upper atmosphere and reaches the Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
400
DAILY DOUBLE X 2 The two main gases that make up the atmosphere.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
400
DAILY TRIPLE!!!!! The ways heat can be transferred near the Earth's surface.
What are: Convection Radiation Conduction
400
The type of storm that forms in large cumulonimbus clouds know as thunderheads.
What are thunderstorms?
400
The boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix.
What is a front?
400
The number of major types of aim masses that influence the weather i North America.
What is 4?
500
The number of layers of the atmosphere.
What is the number 4?
500
The two types of local winds.
What are: Sea Breeze Land Breeze
500
Most precipitation begins in clouds this way.
What is snow?
500
A measure of how hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! The two characteristics that are used to classify air masses.
What are: Temperature Humidity