What layer of the atmosphere contains the weather?

Which layer of the atmosphere is the coldest and is where meteors burn up?

Which layer is the hottest and is where you find satellites?

In which layer of the atmosphere is the ozone located?

As you travel up through the troposphere, what happens to the temperature?

What is the purpose of the ozone layer?

In which two layers does the temperature increase as altitude (height) increase?

According to the graph, which layer gets the hottest?

In which layer can the temperature be 40 degrees Celsius at a height of 150km?

What type of air pressure does cold dense air have?

Name that breeze!

During the day, the warm air rises over land, and the cooler air over water sinks and moves towards the land. What type of breeze is this?

At night, the warmer air over the ocean rises, and the cooler air over land sinks then moves towards the ocean. What type of breeze is this?

Wind is caused by the unequal heating of the earth by the sun.

True or False

Wind blows from an area of ______________________ pressure.

Which is colder, land or water, during the day?

Which is colder, land or water, during the night?

What is created in our atmosphere when warm air rises at the equator and cold air sinks at the poles?

What type of heat transfer travels through the air and does not require touching the heat source to warm the cooler object?

What type of heat transfer moves through a solid by direct contact (touch)?

What type of heat transfer is the movement of a heated fluid (liquid or gas) where warm, less dense air rises and cold, more dense air sinks?

What is happening at arrow #1?

What is happening at arrow #2?

Most of the water that evaporates on Earth comes from ________________.

What is the process where heat changes the water inside a plant from a liquid to a gas (water vapor)?

What is the source of energy that drives the water cycle?

What phase of the water cycle occurs when water collects on the outside of a cold glass?

The deepest part of the ocean is called a ___________________.

What is the longest mountain chain in the world and is located in the ocean called?

Most of the freshwater on Earth is found in glaciers and ice caps.

True or False

We are able to drink most of the water on the earth.

True or False

Which phase of the water cycle occurs when water changes from a liquid to a gas?

When you are walking in the water along the beach, you are actually walking on the ______________________________.

What ocean feature is located at B?

What ocean feature is located at C?

What ocean feature is located at D?

What ocean feature is located at G?

Salinity is the amount of salt in water.

True or False

What happens to the temperature of the ocean as depth increases? (As you go down through the water column.)

What happens to the pressure as depth increases in the ocean? (As you descend, go down, through the water column.)

What happens to density as ocean depth increases? (As you descend down to the ocean floor.)

What two factors affect the density of ocean water?

3% of Earth's water is salt water.

True or False

What type of heat transfer is shown in the diagram?

What type of heat transfer is shown in the diagram?

As salinity of water increases, the density increases.

True or False

Is new water ever created?

What is the continuous movement of water from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back to the Earth again?

What type of tide is located at point A?

What type of tide is located at point B?

Which heats faster, land or water?

Which cools faster, land or water?

What type of weather occurs when a moving warm air mass collides with a cold air mass that is moving in the same direction?

What type of weather occurs when a rapidly moving cold air mass runs into a slowly moving warm air mass, the denser cold air slides under the lighter warm air?

Examine the graph. As temperature increases, what happens to density?

Examine the graph. As temperature decreases, what happens to density?

Air has more moisture over warmer areas.

True or False

Which of the following are formed when warm, humid (moist) air moves up quickly?

What causes the winds to curve?