Weather & Atmosphere

The climate zones lying between 23.5° N to 66.5° N and 23.5° S to 66.5° S latitude

• Polar
• Temperate
• Tropical 

Sea and land breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons

• Sea breezes
• Land breezes
• Monsoons
• Trade winds

Percentage of fresh water on Earth

• 1%
• 3%
• 30%
• 97%

The streams and small rivers that feed into a main river

• Wetland
• Watershed 
• Tributary 
• Lake 

Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

• Groundwater
• Pond
• Lake
• Runoff 

The amount of nitrogen in our atmosphere

• 3%
• 21%
• 78%
• less than 1%

Instruments used to measure air pressure

• Barometer
• Thermometer
• Anemometer
• Psychrometer 

The layer of our atmosphere in which weather occurs

• Thermosphere
• Stratosphere
• Mesosphere
• Troposphere

As altitude increases, air pressure

• decreases
• increases
• stays the same 
• increases then decreases

Earth’s rotation makes global winds curve

• Trade winds
• Coriolis effect
• Doldrums
• Jet Stream