Chapter 9: Atmosphere and Solar System

What are the two most abundent gases in the atmosphere?

Where would you find polar climate zones?

What layer of the atmosphere is the hottest layer?

What best describes Earth's atmosphere?

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

What best describes a mP air mass?

What is the invisible gas formed from liquid water?

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

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

What collect the amount of precipitation?

What type of system brings clouds and rain?

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

What the boundary between two air masses with different properties?

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

What direction does a land breeze flow?

Which side of the mountain receives rain?

What type of front is represented with this symbol?

What instrument is used to measure temperature?

What does a barometer measure?

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

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

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

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

What best describes the mesosphere?

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

How would you describe a tropical climate zone?

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

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

What type of front is represented with the following symbol?

What describes a Warm Air Mass?

What front brings light rains?

What instrument indicates the direction of the wind?

What are the four main areas of the atmopshere?

What front does the following symbol represent?

What color best represents extreme storms on a Radar screen?

Where does a continental air mass form?

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

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

What does an Anemometer measure?

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