Extreme Weather
The Water Cycle
The Atmosphere
Clouds
Climate
100
This is also called a cyclone.
What is a hurricane?
100
This is called condensation.
What is the formation of clouds called?
100
The atmosphere is a layer of air.
What is the atmosphere?
100
It forms when water vapor condenses.
What is the way clouds form?
100
Climate is the average changes in the atmosphere.
What is climate?
200
A tornado is a spinning top.
What is a tornado?
200
This is when water turns into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
The thinnest layer of the atmosphere is the ionosphere.
What is the thinnest layer of the atmosphere?
200
Nimbostratus clouds are flat storm clouds.
What are nimbostratus clouds?
200
Global warming is the warming of the Earth.
What is global warming?
300
A hurricane is a strong storm with strong winds.
What is a hurricane?
300
This is rain poisoned by factories is acid rain.
What is the name of rain poisoned by factories?
300
The highest layer of the atmosphere is the exosphere.
What is the highest layer of the atmosphere?
300
The prefix (alto) means a cloud between 6000 and 20000 feet high.
What does the prefix (alto) mean?
300
The cause of global warming is pollution.
What is the cause of global warming?
400
Tornados form over land and hurricanes form over water.
What is the difference between a tornado and a hurricane?
400
This stage of the water cycle when it rains is precipitation.
What is the stage of the water cycle when it rains?
400
The layer of the atmosphere that is heated by the sun's heat is the thermosphere.
What is the layer of the atmosphere that is heated by the sun's heat?
400
The prefix (cirro) means the cloud is higher than 18000 feet.
What does the prefix (cirro) mean?
400
The most common source of pollution is car driving.
What is the most common source of pollution?
500
It forms when cold air meets warm air.
What is the way a tornado forms?
500
The name of the gas is water vapor.
What is the name of the gas that is formed by evaporation and transpiration?
500
The layer of the atmosphere that has the ozone layer is the stratosphere.
What is the layer of the atmosphere that has the ozone layer?
500
They are called Cirrus, Altostratus, Altocumulus, Cirrostratus, and Cirrocumulus.
What are the highest clouds called?
500
The most common greenhouse gases are CO2 ,CH4, N2O, H2O, and Ozone.
What are the names of the most common greenhouse gases?