The Atmosphere
The atmosphere is mainly a mixture of these 2 gases.
What is nitrogen and oxygen?
This is the most common form of precipitation.
What is rain.
These are 2 kinds of weather fronts and their symbols.
What are cold (pointy) and warm (curved)
Process in water cycle that forms clouds.
What condensation.
This is the term that describes any form of water that falls from clouds
What is precipitation
Air pressure does this as altitude increases.
What is decreases.
These are ice pellets that are larger than 5 mm and form during a thunderstorm.
What is hail.
When the sun heats and evaporates large amounts of ocean water it can form this type of storm.
What is a hurricane.
Under which atmospheric conditions will water most likely evaporate at the fastest rate?
What is hot, dry, and windy
This instrument is used to determine the relative humidity and dew point?
What is a sling psychrometer?
This is the chemical formula for ozone and its location in the atmosphere.
What is O3 and the stratosphere.
This is the reason why weather around the word is different.
What is the uneven heating of the earth.
This is the symbol for a warm front
What is semi-circles?
These clouds form at or near the ground.
What is fog
This process turns water vapor in the air into a liquid
What is condensation
These are the 4 main layers of the atmosphere in order from the Earth.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere
This is the instrument that is used to measure rain.
What is the rain gauge.
When air masses come together in the center of the US they form these dangerous storms.
What are tornadoes
This point at which the air becomes saturated with water vapor
What is dew point?
This is what happens when there are long periods of little or no precipitation.
What is drought.
Convection currents are created when this happens in the air.
What is warm air rises and cold air sinks.
These are the 5 common types of precipitaiton.
What are rain, freezing rain, sleet, hail, and snow.
This takes place when air at lower altitudes travel faster and in a different direction the the air at higher altitudes.
What is a mesocyclone.
This is the amount of water vapor in the air compared with the amount it can hold.
What is the relative humidity.
This instrument is used to measure wind speed?
What is an anemometer?