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Atmosphere
Wind
Air Pressure
The Sun
Miscellaneous
100
The layer of air that surrouds the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
100
Used to measure wind direction.
What is a wind sock or a weather vane?
100
Used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
100
The source of heat for the Earth.
What is the sun?
100
Five things that make up our atmosphere.
What are nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, other gases, and dust?
200
The layer where most of Earth's weather occurs.
What is the Troposphere?
200
Used to measure wind direction.
What is an anemometer?
200
Two kinds of barometers.
What is mercury and aneroid?
200
Heat given off by the sun is mostly ____________ in space.
What is lost?
200
The condition of the air around the Earth.
What is weather?
300
The layer where you could see a falling star.
What is the Mesopshere?
300
Winds that blow between 30 degrees North and 30 degrees South latitude.
What are trade winds?
300
Two things that affect air pressure.
What is the amount of air above and temperature.
300
Traps ultraviolet rays from the sun.
What is the ozone layer?
300
The order of layers of the atmosphere starting at the Earth's surface.
What is Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere?
400
The layer where pilots like to fly.
What is the Stratosphere?
400
Winds that blow steadily in predictable directions over very long distances.
What are global winds?
400
Air wants to move to an area of _______pressure to an area of _______ pressure.
What is from high pressure to an area of low pressure?
400
Where the sun hits most directly.
What is at the equator?
400
Layer where you can see the Northern Lights.
What is the Ionosphere?
500
The layer where satellites travel.
What is the Thermosphere?
500
The movement of air from the water to the land.
What is a sea breeze?
500
The weight of the air being pulled down on an area of Earth's surface.
What is air pressure?
500
Most of the sunlight that enters Earth's atmosphere is _______ by Earth's surface.
What is absorbed?
500
Miles above the Earth's surface where the atmosphere ends.
What is 1,000 miles?