Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere and Exosphere
What are the five layers of the atmosphere?
100
Wind speed, wind direction, air pressure, cloud cover, temperature, and humidity.
What are the six factors of weather?
100
Clouds
What forms when air rises, cools to its dew point, and becomes saturated?
100
Cold fronts, warms fronts, stationary fronts and occluded fronts.
What are the four different types of fronts?
100
Thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes.
What are three types of severe weather?
200
Ozone layer
What layer protects us from the ultraviolet rays of the sun and is found in the stratosphere?
200
Humidity
What is the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere?
200
Stratus, cumulus, and nimbostratus
What three types of clouds are found in the lower layer of the atmosphere?
200
Six
What is the number of air masses that control the air over North America?
200
Cumulonimbus
What types of cloud produces severe thunderstorms?
300
Ionosphere
What is the found in the atmosphere that contains electrically charged particles and adds in communication?
300
Relative humidity
What is the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere as compared to the amount that could be held at a specific temperature?
300
Rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
What are the five types of precipitation?
300
Warm front
What weather front produces long periods of steady precipitation over a wide area?
300
Hurricane
What is a large storm that begins as an area of low pressure over tropical oceans?
400
Water Cycle
What is the never ending motion of the earth's water?
400
Dew point
What is the temperature at which the atmosphere becomes saturated and condensation occurs?
400
Altostratus and Altocumulus
What are two types of clouds found in the middle layer of the atmosphere?
400
Occluded front
What is the front of cold, fast moving air that overtakes slower moving warm air?
400
A weather watch means conditions are right for storms/tornadoes to occur and a warning mean one has been seen and you should take precations to be safe.
What is the difference between a weather watch and a weather warning?
500
Aerosols
What the solids such as dust, salt, and pollen found in the atmosphere?
500
Aerosols
What are the solids such as dust, salt and pollen, that are found in our atmosphere?
500
Cumulonimbus Clouds
What type of cloud creates the heaviest precipitation of all?
500
Coriolis effect.
What causes the air to circulate in a counterclockwise direction in the northern hemisphere in a low pressure area?
500
Height of the waves, storm surge and the accompanying rain.
What three things makes beach erosion more severe after a hurricane than regular erosion caused by daily waves?