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vocabulary
atmosphere
weather factors
weather patterns
climate
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A puffy cloud
What is a cumulus cloud?
100
The lowest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
100
Rain, hail, sleet, and snow are all forms of this.
What is precipitation?
100
A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure.
What is an air mass?
100
The two factors that determine climate.
What are temperature and precipitation?
200
The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere
What is relative humidity?
200
The layer of the atmosphere that you will find the ozone.
What is the stratosphere?
200
This occurs when air moves from high pressure to low pressure.
What is wind?
200
Bands of high speed winds that are found about 10 km above Earth's surface and blow from west to east.
What is a jet stream?
200
The type of climate with all four seasons.
What is temperate?
300
The global wind belt that we live in.
What are the Westerlies?
300
This is what is used to classify layers of the atmosphere.
What is temperature?
300
Clouds form when this occurs.
What is condensation?
300
A warm dry air mass.
What is continental tropical?
300
Prevailing winds, seasonal winds, and mountain ranges.
What are factors that affect precipitation in a location?
400
Tall thunderstorm clouds.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
400
Aurora Borealis occurs in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Thermosphere (or Ionosphere)?
400
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is relative humidity?
400
The type of front that causes abrupt weather changes such as thunderstorms.
What is a cold front?
400
When surface water in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean warms up and causes changes in global weather patterns.
What is El Nino?
500
The instrument that measures relative humidity.
What is a psychrometer?
500
78% of dry air is this gas.
What is Nitrogen?
500
What occurs in the atmosphere when cold air is denser than warm air.
What is convection?
500
The type of front where cold and warm air meet, but neither one can move the other.
What is a stationary front?
500
Changing levels of this gas may be a major factor in climate change or global warming.
What is Carbon Dioxide?