Most of the weather changes take place in this layer of the atmosphere
What is the troposphere?
100
This is a blanket of air that surrounds the Earth
What is the atmosphere?
100
When water vapor loses heat, turn back into liquid, and condenses on small pieces of dust in the air they become this
What is a cloud?
100
This is the study of weather
What is meteorology?
100
This is the border where two air masses meet and where weather changes take place
What is a front?
200
This is the type of wind that results from local differences in temperature
What is local wind?
200
This is another name for global wind that almost always blows from the same direction.
What is a prevailing wind?
200
Condensation that does not form as precipitation can form as this when the air near the ground is cold enough
What is dew?
200
This instrument measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
200
This type of front moves quickly often causing rapid condensation, heavy rain, thunderstorms, and snow. They also do not last very long.
What is a cold front?
300
This is the upward & downward movement of air due to difference in the temperature and density of the air
What is convection current?
300
The weight of air in the atmosphere is called this. The lower you go, the more of this it has due to the influences of gravity
What is air pressure?
300
Water vapor that condenses into small water droplets near the ground level
What is fog?
300
****When a barometer reads that air pressure is increasing, we can expect this type of weather****
BONUS QUESTION
What is cold, less humid, with lower chance of rain?
300
When lower pressure air is surrounded by higher pressure air, lower pressure air rises when it is forced up by denser air that flows in
What is a hurricane?
400
When the air above the ocean is cold and the air above the land is warm, it causes this type of breeze
What is see breeze?
400
In the Pacific Ocean, there is a particular patch of ocean water that heats up but does not move due to winds stopping. The cooler currents don't reach the surface and results in the coastal water staying warm.
What is El Niño?
400
This large mass absorbs a lot of the heat to keep the air above it cooler during the summer and during the winter it releases heat into air above them to keep the air above it warmer
What is the ocean?
400
These clouds let us know that we can expect fair weather
What is cirrus clouds or cumulus clouds?
*If you put down both types of clouds, you get an extra 100 points
500
These types of wind form when large parts of the Earth are unevenly heated and generally moves from the same general direction
What is prevailing wind?
500
This is a tool for measuring air pressure
What is a barometer?
500
These winds can carry heat and moisture through the transportation of water vapors
What is global wind?
500
According to this theory, small changes creating great effects makes it difficult for scientists to predict weather accurately
What is chaos theory
500
These types of storms reverse their direction seasonally. You can expect land breeze in the winter and sea breeze in the summer because of this.