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The ozone layer is found in what layer of the
atmosphere?
What is the coldest layer of the
atmosphere?
Stratosphere
What is the hottest layer of the atmosphere?
Mesosphere
What are the 2 most common gases in all
layers of the atmosphere?
Thermosphere
Earth’s atmosphere is composed of what?
Nitrogen and oxygen
What type of cloud is white and fluffy?
Gases
What type of cloud is feathery or wispy?
Cumulus
Cold fronts bring thunderstorms and then
what type of temperatures?
Cirrus
What are the boundaries between air masses
called?
Cooler
What type of weather does a stationary
front bring?
Fronts
“nimbus” means ________.
Lots of precipitation
Occluded fronts happen when a warm front
is overtaken by _________.
Rain
What determines what type of precipitation
actually falls during the water cycle?
Cold front
What do we call it when water vapor is
released from plants?
Temperature
Transpiration
What forms when water vapor condenses on a
surface?
What forms when ice crystals sublimate on
a surface?
dew
What type of pressure systems signal fair
weather?
Frost
What type of system has counterclockwise
circulating winds?
High pressure
Cumulonimbus clouds produce what?
Low pressure
Hurricanes form under what type of
pressure?
Thunderstorms
True or false. Some of the Sun’s energy coming
through the atmosphere is reflected and
absorbed.
Low
What substance is a great regulator of
temperature on Earth?
True
Relative humidity can be measured
with_________.
Water
What does the set pointer tell you on a
barometer?
Sling psychrometer
Satellites track_________and radar
detects__________movements and patterns.
If pressure is rising or falling
What are the lines that show similar
temperatures on a weather map called?
Precipitation, cloud
What are the lines that show similar pressure
on a weather map called?
Isotherms
Air pressure is greatest closest to what?
isobars
List the convection areas in the Northern
hemispheres starting from the equator up.
Earth’s surface
What type of global winds mainly affect
hurricanes?
Tropical, temperate, polar
Trade winds
Convection currents near bodies of water can
cause local winds known as
Winds are caused by differences in
_______.
Global winds
What does a triple beam balance measure?
Temperature
Where is the independent variable found
on a graph?
Mass
A tentative explanation for a problem that can
be tested is written in and if, then statement is
called a_______________.
X axis
What is the step of technological design in
which I test the product?
Hypothesis
Jack weighs 67 kg. What type of statement is
this?
Implementation
What causes a breeze at the beach to blow
toward land?
Quantitative observation
Land heating up faster and warm air rising
so the air over the ocean can move under it
Draw an occluded front.
Draw what a cold front looks like on your
paper.
Draw a warm front
Draw a stationary front
Draw a weather symbol for rain, barometric
pressure 1002, and wind from the south 5mph.
If the ground is porous will water most
likely become ground water or run off? (if
it is a slow steady rain)
Ground water
What is the fast moving ribbon of air that
constantly moves from west to east in the
Northern Hemisphere called?
Westerly winds come from which
direction?
Jet stream
The effect that causes winds to curve is known
as?
West
What causes winds to curve?
Coriolis effect
What is the name of the tool the measures
wind speed called?
The earth spinning
What current influences the weather on
the east coast of the US called?
Anemometer
Gulf Stream current
What is the process called that traps heat in our Energy from the Sun is known
atmosphere called?
as__________.
Greenhouse effect
Solar energy
What does the prefix Alto mean?
Which is the largest and forms over the
ocean: tornado or hurricane?
Medium level
What type of tool measures wind direction?
Hurricane
What is the name of a weather scientist?
Wind vane
meteorologist