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Atmosphere Water in the Air

Air Masses and Fronts

Severe Weather

Pollution clouds

The atmosphere is made up of mostly ______.

A 100

Nitrogen

A 100

What force causes the Earth to have an atmosphere?

A 200

Gravity

A 200

What % of the atmosphere is Oxygen?

A 300

21%

A 300

What are the 2 highest layers of the atmosphere?

A 400

Mesosphere and Thermosphere

A 400

Auroras are caused by electrically charged particles

found in the ________.

A 500

Ionisphere

A 500

_______ is the amount of water vapor in the air.

B 100

Humidity

B 100

List the 5 types of precipitation

B 200

Rain, Snow, Sleet, Hail, and Freezing Rain

B 200

List the 4 steps of the water cycle

B 300

Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation,

Groundwater/Runoff

B 300

The temperature at which the air becomes saturated is the

_____ ________.

B 400

Dew Point

B 400

What is the tool used to measure relative humidity?

B 500

psychrometer

B 500

A Continental Tropical air mass means the air would be

_______ & _______.

C 100

Dry and Warm

C 100

When a cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass, and the warm air is forced

quickly upward

C 200

Cold Front

C 200

When a warm air mass meets a cold air mass, and neither

one moves

C 300

Stationary Front

C 300

DAILY DOUBLE

C 400

DAILY DOUBLE

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When two cold air masses meet and force a warm air mass between them to rise

quickly upward

C 400

Occluded Front

C 400

Which type of front is associated with large amounts

of rain and snow?

C 500

Occluded Front

C 500

What type of cloud produces a thunderstorm?

D 100

Cumulonimbus

D 100

In order to be considered a hurricane, winds must reach

_____ km/hr

D 200

120

D 200

The most common type of lightning is __________

D 300

Cloud to cloud

D 300

For a thunderstorm to be considered SEVERE, the

winds must reach _______.

D 400

89 km/hr

D 400

What is the name of the scale used to rank tornadoes by diameter and wind speed?

D 500

Fujita Scale

D 500

What are the 2 types of pollutants?

E 100

Primary and secondary

E 100

What is formed when ozone and vehicle exhaust react

with sunlight?

E 200

smog

E 200

List 5 sources of indoor air pollution?

E 300

Dry cleaning, faulty furnaces, cleaning chemicals, furniture,

Gasoline

E 300

The increase of soil’s acidity is ______.

E 400

acidification

E 400

In 1970, Congress passed the _________ that gives the ________ the authority to control the amount of air

pollutants that can be released from any source

E 500

Clean Air Act – Environmental Protection

Agency

E 500

A low puffy cloud

F 100

cumulus

F 100

A low stretched out cloud

F 200

stratus

F 200

A high cloud that is wispy

F 300

cirrus

F 300

The term “alto” means

F 400

Medium Height

F 400

What term means is or will produce precipitation?

F 500

nimbus

F 500

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Layers of the Atmosphere

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Which layer is the densest, and contains almost 90% of the

atmosphere’s mass

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Troposphere

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