What are the tools used to measure temperature and pressure?
100
More direct light shines on the equator.
Why are days hotter at the equator?
100
Air expands and becomes less dense.
What happens to air when air is heated?
100
Warm air is less dense causing this to occur in the atmosphere.
What is a low pressure system?
100
A large body of air with the same temperature and moisture content throughout.
What is air mass?
200
This person studies and makes predictions about the weather.
Who is a meteorologist?
200
Tilt of the Earth at 23.5 degrees.
The direct and indirect amount of light hitting the Earths surface.
The number of daylight hours.
What are the causes for the seasons?
200
Volume
What is the space taken up by an object?
200
Cold air is more dense causing this to occur in the atmosphere.
What is high pressure?
200
Where 97.2% of water can be found.
What is the oceans?
300
The troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.
What are the layers of gases surrounding the Earth, the atmosphere?
300
This is the angle at which light hits Earth's surface.
The angle is higher when light hits the equator and lower when light hits the poles.
What is the solar angle?
300
Kim was watering the plants for her mom. She noticed the sidewalk was wet. Later she noticed the same sidewalk was dry.
What is the process of evaporation?
300
The direction that air moves in the atmosphere.
What is high to low pressure?
300
The boundary that separates air masses with different moisture content and temperatures.
What is a front?
400
One is the condition of the atmosphere at any given time and the other is the weather of an area over a long period of time.
What is the difference between weather and climate?
400
The Sun.
What is the major source of energy that drives the weather on Earth?
400
Mass
What is the amount of matter that makes up an object?
400
What is the amount of water vapor in the air compared to the amount of water vapor the air can hold.
What is relative humidity?
400
Evaporation, condensation and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
500
This can be compressed.
This has mass.
This takes up space.
This is a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen.
What is air?
500
Conduction
What is the movement of energy from one object to another by touch?
500
Running a hot shower created a room full of moist saturated air. When the air comes in contact with the mirror, the mirror became foggy.
What is explaining the process of condensation?
500
Differential heating of the Earths surface causes this.
What is the movement of air, Wind?
500
Energy transfers to water. Water turns to vapor and enters the air. Humid air is lifted into the atmosphere, cooling as it rises. It condenses on condensation nuclei.