Atmosphere
The layer of the atmosphere that is 1000 kilometers and extends into space.
What is the exosphere?
Name three different forms of weather front. (You have four seconds).
What is: occluded front, cold front, and warm front.
The shape both hurricanes and tornadoes share.
What is a vortex?
In this step of the water cycle, water becomes gas.
What is evaporation?
This layer of the atmosphere expands and contracts.
What is the thermosphere?
When three air masses of different temperatures collide, it is called this.
What is an occluded front?
When a hurricane reaches land. (Name what this event is called).
What is landfall?
These conditions are necessary to form clouds.
What are: low pressure, a nucleus (dust particle, air pollution, etc.), and condensed water vapor.
This vehicle moves in the stratosphere.
What is an airplane?
The weather associated with a cold front.
What is stormy?
This can become a tropical storm.
What is a tropical depression?
This is the name for when water vapor comes back down in solid or liquid form.
What is precipitation?
This layer of the atmosphere contains a protector from UV radiation.
What is the thermosphere?
The air mass that moves in during a cold front.
What is a cold air mass?
These 2 famous movies features an extreme weather event with a vortex.
What are Sharknado and The WIzard of Oz?
This causes water to become water vapor.
What is thermal energy?
Name the layers of the atmosphere in order from farthest to closest. (You have 5 seconds).
What is: exosphere, thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, troposphere.
High or low pressure is categorized under an amount of this.
What is barometric pressure?
This weather even is measured on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.
What is a hurricane?
What is yes?