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Atmosphere
Water Cycle
Studying Weather
Tools
Miscellanious
100
Heat from the ground rises into the air, it is trapped by clouds and carbon dioxide gas, causing the air to become warmer.
What is the greenhouse effect
100
Water droplets fall to the earth from a cloud.
What is percipitation
100
The study of weather
What is meteorology?
100
It measures how much rain falls in various locations.
What is a rain gauge?
100
Two processes constantly at work in the water cycle.
What are evaporation and condensation?
200
Where most birds and airplanes fly.
What is troposphere
200
Falling moisture hits the ground, where some of it soaks in and becomes this.
What is ground water
200
The amount of moisture in the air at the current temperature compared to how much moisture the air can hold at the same temperature.
What is relative humidity?
200
Used to show people what the weather is like in different places and what weather may occur in their area in the next few days.
What is a weather map?
200
In this layer of the atmosphere, the aurora occurs.
What is thermosphere?
300
This layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer, which protects the earth from most of the sun's ultraviolet energy.
What is the stratosphere
300
The occurrence of liquid turning into water vapor
What is evaporation
300
Meteorologists use this to locate rainstorms and to determine the direction storms are moving and their strength.
What is radar?
300
Used to measure the temperature.
What is a thermometer?
300
Rain that does not evaporate of become runoff water.
What is ground water?
400
The atmosphere has four main overlapping layers.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere
400
Water is naturally purified to be used over and over via evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
400
It circles the earth, taking detailed pictures of small areas.
What is LANDSAT (satellite) ?
400
Instrument used to air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
The layer of the atmosphere in which we live.
What is the troposphere?
500
Scientists worry that too much is being released into the atmosphere resulting in an increased greenhouse effect.
What is carbon dioxide
500
Water vapor in the atmosphere collects into tiny droplets of liquid water.
What is condensation?
500
Men and women who study the weather and report what they have observed.
What is a meteorologist?
500
Instrument that measures the wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
Used to measure relative humidity.
What is psychrometer