Chapter 9: Atmosphere and Solar System

What is the overall condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place?

What is the invisible gas formed from liquid water?

What instrument is used to measure temperature?

What layer of the atmosphere offers protection from the Sun's harmful rays?

What is the name of the process when water vapor changes back to liquid water?

What occurs because of winds blowing across the ocean creating streams of water?

What front does the following symbol represent?

What is the normal pattern of weather in an area over many years?

What instrument indicates the direction of the wind?

What do we call rain, snow, sleet and hail that falls from the clouds?

What describes a Warm Air Mass?

What type of front is represented with the following symbol?

What are the four main areas of the atmopshere?

Where would you find polar climate zones?

What front brings light rains?

What best describes Earth's atmosphere?

What type of breeze flows from the water towards the land?

What does an Anemometer measure?

What type of system brings clouds and rain?

What direction does a land breeze flow?

What best describes a mP air mass?

What the boundary between two air masses with different properties?

What are the two most abundent gases in the atmosphere?

What is a body of air that has about the same temperature and moisture throughout?

What occurs because of the usual warming of the Pacific Ocean?

What color best represents extreme storms on a Radar screen?

What is the dry areas of the leeward side of the mountains?

What is the movement of water between Earth's atmosphere and land?

What type of instrument creates an image of a storm in different colors?

What does a barometer measure?

How would you describe a tropical climate zone?

What best describes the mesosphere?

What side of the moutains does not recieve a large amount of rain?

What collect the amount of precipitation?

What layer of the atmosphere contains 75% of the gases that makes up the atmosphere?

What layer of the atmosphere is the hottest layer?

What type of front is represented with this symbol?

Which side of the mountain receives rain?

Where does a continental air mass form?

What type of weather does a High-Pressure System bring?