Weather Study Guide
1. Three functions of the Earth’s atmosphere :
a. _____________________________________________________________________
b. _____________________________________________________________________
c. _____________________________________________________________________
2. Name the layers of the Earth’s atmosphere in order from Earth to Space:
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3. Which layer do we find important gases for weather conditions?__________________________
4. The ozone layer absorbs ____________________________________________________.
5. Where do we find the aurora borealis? _________________________________________
6. The layers of the atmosphere are classified according to changes in ______________________.
7. What are the two most abundant gases in the atmosphere?
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8. Rain is most likely to occur when temperatures are ____________________________________.
9. As you move up through the troposphere, the temperature
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10. Which causes erosion, condensation or surface run-off? ______________________________
11. The temperature in the stratosphere is _______________ until it reaches the ozone layer.
12. Why do you get out of breath when you climbing a mountain? ___________________________
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13. Where is the ozone layer found? ___________________________
14. What happens to the air pressure the farther you go in the atmosphere?
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15. Which instrument is used to measure air pressure? ____________________________
16. Be able to identify the correct order of the water cycle in a diagram.
17. When raindrops fall through a layer of air below 0⁰C, __________________ forms.
18. Which clouds are shaped like cotton balls? _______________________
19. Which is the greatest source of moisture entering the atmosphere through evaporation, glaciers
or oceans? ________________________
20. Which type of cloud produces thunderstorms and what does it look like?
21. The water on earth has been here for _________________ of years.
22. During which process of the water cycle does water vapor cool and form clouds?
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23. Air in the atmosphere has pressure because air has ______________.
24. Which part of the hurricane is calm? _____________.
25. What would happen if water evaporated, but didn’t condense?
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26. People who study weather and try to predict it are called ______________________________.
27. What instrument measures wind speed? _____________________________.
28. Relative humidity is measured with a _________________________________.
29. Along a warm front, the warmer, less dense air _______________________________________.
30. What kind of weather occurs at the boundary of two unequal air masses? ______________
31. What has led to more accurate weather forecasting? ___________________________________
32. A hurricane is a ___________ pressure system with high winds that forms over
______________.
33. Cool air masses tend to be ________________ dense and flow ______________ warm air
masses.
34. Review weather maps and symbols, also the direction they travel.
35. Precipitation and storms occur in ________ pressure systems.
36. High, thin feathery, clouds containing ice crystals are ____________________.
37. When the barometric pressure is falling, what kind of weather can you predict? _____________
38. What happens to solar energy that is absorbed at the Earth’s surface?
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39. The main way heat is circulated through the atmosphere by ___________________________.
40. Which of these is not a convection region, tropical, temperate, polar, or trade?
_________________
41. _____________________________________________________ and the spinning of the Earth
on its axis, cause global winds to develop.
42. Which global winds blow from the northeast toward the west in the northern hemisphere
moving very cold air with them? __________________________________________