Layers of the Atmosphere
Known as the lower atmosphere, almost all weather occurs in this region.
What is the Troposphere?
The process by which a gas changes into a liquid.
What is condensation?
The force on a surface caused by the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth.
What is air pressure?
Liquid water droplets suspended in the air.
What is a cloud?
When something becomes different over time.
What is change?
This is the outermost layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Exosphere?
The process by which a liquid changes into a gas.
What is evaporation?
The scientific study of weather.
What is Meteorology?
A measure of how much water vapor is in the air.
What is humidity?
The ability to make things move or change.
What is energy?
This is known as the upper atmosphere.
What is the Thermosphere?
Rain, hail, sleet, or snow that falls from clouds into the ground.
What is precipitation?
A measure of how hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
Water as a gas.
What is water vapor?
One thing that contributes to causing an event.
What is factor?
The gases in this layer are now thick enough to slow down meteors hurtling into the atmosphere,
Mesosphere.
Water as a gas.
What is water vapor?
Conditions such as rain, clouds, and wind at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
An amount of air that moves as a unit.
What is an air parcel/
Scientific methods used to reconstruct and understand a mystery.
What is forensics?
In this region, the temperature increases with height.
What is the Stratosphere?
The mixture of gases surrounding a planet.
What is atmosphere?
The movement of air in a particular direction.
What is wind?
Something we observe to be similar over and over again.
What is a pattern?
Where something comes from.
What is source?