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Clouds and
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Water cycle and
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2. What is the layer of our atmosphere that is closet to the Earth?

3. The Troposphere

4. In order, what are the layers of our atmosphere?

5. Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere

6. What three gases make up the composition of air?

7. Nitrogen, oxygen, and trace gases

8. Which layer of the atmosphere is the most dense?

9. The Troposphere

10. What gas makes up most of the air?

11. Nitrogen-78%

12. When altitude increases air pressure ________

13. decreases

14. What is density?

15. The amount of mass a substance has in a given volume.

16. As altitude increases in each layer what happens to the temperature?

17. The temperature decreases then increases then decreases then increases

18. The ________ the air pressure the higher its altitude.

19. lower

20. Why does the air pressure decrease when altitude increses?

21. The air gets thinner the higher you go.

22. What kind of pressure system brings ‘good’ weather?

23. High pressure system

24. What is a front where a cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass?

25. Cold front

26. Which air mass would bring wet, cold weather?

27. Maritime polar

28. Name all four air masses.

29. Maritime tropical, Maritime polar, Continental tropical, Continental polar.

30. What is the difference between a stationary front and an occluded front?

31. A stationary front brings rain for many days while a occluded front brings possible rain and cooler weather.

32. What type of cloud are made of ice crystals?

33. Cirrus clouds

34. What are the low lying clouds that look like layers of a blanket?

35. Stratus clouds

36. Which is stronger a tropical storm or a hurricane?

37. Hurricane

38. How fast must the wind speed be for a tropical storm to be classified as a hurricane?

39. 119 kilometers per hour

40. What clouds are in the sky during a thunderstorm?

41. Cumulonimbus clouds

42. What are the four forms of precipitation?

43. Rain, snow, sleet, and hail

44. What direction do our winds blow from and what are they called?

45. The Prevailing Westerlies blow from the west.

46. What are Doldrums?

47. Calm areas of rising air.

48. What step of the water cycle does transpiration occur in?

49. Water vapor from plants enters the atmosphere during photosynthesis
Evaporation –
Water vapor from plants enters the atmosphere during photosynthesis

50. What is the difference between condensation and evaporation?

51. Evaporation = liquid to gas Condensation =gas to liquid

52. Final Jeopardy
Make your wager

53. What is the difference between an observation and an inference?

54. An observation is using your five senses (facts) while an inference is when you make an assumption about an observation.