Layers of the Atmosphere
Clouds
Water Cycle
Winds
Miscellaneous
Trivia
100
How many layers are in the atmosphere?
5
100
This cloud usually brings severe weather, heavy precipitation, lightning, and thunder.
What is cumulonimbus?
100
This provided the energy needed for the water cycle to work.
What is the Sun?
100
This example of wind moves in short distances and in any direction.
What is Local Winds?
100
Name an example of a greenhouse gas.
Carbon Dioxide, Nitrous Oxide, Methane
100
Standing in at 3ft and 50 pounds this emperor penguin was born in an Australian zoo not long ago.
Who is Pesto?
200
This layer contains the ozone layer that helps block harmful UV rays.
What is the stratosphere
200
A cirrus cloud is a low, mid, or high-level cloud? (altitude)
High-Level Coud
200
This phase change occurs in evaporation
What is liquid to gas?
200
Wind moves from________ pressure to __________ pressure
What is HIGH pressure to LOW pressure?
200
This gas is the most abundant in the atmosphere
What is nitrogen
200
This animated kid blows up toys.
Who is Sid?
300
This layer is where weather occurs and it is the layer that humans have the most interaction with.
What is the Troposphere?
300
This cloud is usually described as flat and layered.
What is stratus clouds?
300
Hail, snow, rain, sleet are all....
What is forms of precipitation?
300
Names of wind are named by....
The direction in which they come from?
300
These two layers protect humans in some way
Stratosphere (UV Rays) and Mesosphere (Meteors)
300
This men's college basketball team has the most NCAA championships with 11
Who is UCLA?
400
List the layers in order from the furthest from Earth to the closest to Earth
Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, and Troposphere.
400
The cloud that is most often associated with fair weather and looks like a nice cotton ball.
what is cumulus
400
Plants aid in the water cycle through what process?
What is Transpiration?
400
This causes global winds to have a curve.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
400
Oxygen makes up what percentage of the atmosphere
What is 21%
400
What is blue and not heavy?
Light Blue
500
These two layers increase in temperature when you increase in altitude while in those layers.
What is the stratosphere and thermosphere?
500
Name the three ways a cloud can form.
Frontal Activity, Lifting, Convection
500
This is the only thing in nature that can be liquid, gas or solid.
What is water?
500
Which side is a land or sea breeze?
Sea breeze on the left and land breeze on the right.
500
This name is given to the wind that Europeans used to sail their ships to the Americas.
What are trade winds?
500
In the movie cars, Lightning McQueen, The King, and Chick Hicks are all tied in the points race for the Piston Cup. What number are they all tied at?
5013 Piston Cup points