Atmosphere Vocab Quiz Review

Outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere that is located above the thermosphere with no clear boundary at the top

• Exosphere
• convection
• conduction
• radiation
• mesophere

Stored energy in water vapor that is not released ti the warm atmosphere until condensation occurs

• latent heat
• convection
• conduction
• radiation
• exospere

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Puffy, lumpy looking clouds that usually occur below 2000m

• cumulus
• convection
• conduction
• radiation
• exospere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Cloud formation that occurs when warm, moist air is forced to rise up the side of a mountain

• orographic lifting
• convection
• conduction
• radiation
• exospere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Process that occurs when cloud droplets collide and form larger droplets, which eventually become too heavy to remain aloft and can fall to the Earth as precipitation

• coalescence
• convection
• conduction
• radiation
• exospere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Layer of Earth’s atmosphere that is located above the tropopause and is made up primarily of concentrated ozone

• stratosphere
• convection
• conduction
• radiation
• exospere

Point at which water molecules leaving the water’s surface equals the rate of water molecules returning to the surface

• saturation
• convection
• conduction
• radiation
• exospere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

All solid and liquid forms of water that fall from clouds

• precipitation
• convection
• conduction
• radiation
• exospere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Layer of Earth’s atmosphere that is located above the mesopause

• thermosphere
• convection
• conduction
• radiation
• exospere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Layered sheetlike cloud that covers much or all of the sky is a given area

• stratus
• convection
• conduction
• radiation
• exospere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6