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What happens in the Thermosphere?
Weather lowest layer
Jets fly Almost 3 quarters of the atmosphere
Satellites or deep space
Northern Lights or the last/beginning of the atmosphere
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What is a storm?
a small storm accompanied by heavy precipitation
a calm, slow moving warm front
a violent disturbance in the atmosphere
upward winds and snow
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What is a blizzard?
Strong winds with hail
Heavy snow
A severe snowstorm with strong winds
Heavy Rainfall
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How are clouds formed?
Earth
Air
Clouds
Clouds form when the invisible water vapor in the air condenses into visibl
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What is weathering?
A supernatural process
Sediment
Erosion
the process in which rocks are broken into smaller pieces
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What is Erosion
The process in which sediment is deposited in a different place
The process in which sediment is move from one place to another
The process in which rock is broken
The process in which loam is made from soil,slit,and clay
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What is a tornado?
A large storm that is rotating clouds
A small storm that is rotating clouds
Not this answer
Not this answer
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The Exosphere...
Doesn't have an ending, as far as we know.
Has the most molecules.
At 240 km.
Is the first layer.
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What is a hurricane?
A big tornado
Typhoon
A huge storm made of air and water
A tsunami
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Forms of precipitation are
C. only dew, mists and rain
B. rain, sleet, snow and hail
A. only sleet and snow
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Is the ozone layer in the Stratosphere?
True
False
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Which direction do air masses flow?
High pressure to low pressure
Low pressure to high pressure
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Is the Mesosphere above or below the Stratosphere?
Above
Below
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What is weather?
Condition of outer space around Earth
Condition of the water around you
Condition of the land around you
Condition of the air around you
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which layer is the troposphere?
2
1
3
4
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What is transpiration?
The movement of water around a plant
The process of water being transported from soil to roots
The opening and closing of stomata
The loss of water vapour from the leaves and stems of plants
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What is Climate ?
The short-term state of the atmosphere.
A Water Cycle
Seasons
The Average pattern of weather for a particular region.
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how are climate zones arranged
lines of longitute
lines of latitude
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water evaporating from a body of water into the atmosphere
Transpiration
Collection
Condensation
Evaporation
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what is condensation?
water evaperate
when the water moves across the surface of the earth
when water forms a cloud
when it rains
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Does the water cycle ever STOP?
No, it never stops
Yes, it can stop after the water goes back to the sea
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Where does the water cycle get its energy?
the sun
electricity
the moon
fossil fuels