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What is the layer of gases surrounding Earth that provides all necessary gases to support life?

What are solids like dust, salt, and pollen, and tiny liquid droplets such as acids in the atmosphere called?

Which atmospheric layer is closest to Earth's surface?

What is the never-ending process in which Earth's water is in constant motion?

What term describes the current condition of the atmosphere?

What is the term for the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere?

What is the temperature at which water vapor can condense and saturation occurs?

What is the measure of the amount of water vapor present compared to the amount that could be present at a specific temperature?

What occurs when drops of water or crystals of ice become too large to be suspended in a cloud?

What is a large body of air that develops over a particular region of Earth's surface called?

What is the boundary called where air masses of different temperatures meet?

What is a large storm that begins as an area of low pressure?

What is a violent whirling wind that moves across the ground in a narrow path?

Where do thunderstorms develop?

How are lightning and thunder created?

What is the energy flow that occurs between areas of opposite electrical charge?

What produces a sonic boom?

The _____ describes the current condition of the atmosphere.

The boundary between different air masses is called a _____

A _____ is a violent, whirling wind that forms over land.

Dust, salt, pollen, and acid droplets in the atmosphere are called _____

A large body of air that develops over a particular region of Earth's surface is called a _____

Which atmospheric layer is farthest from Earth's surface?

Who first proved that air has weight?

What kind of cloud touches the ground?

What occurs when strong winds toss ice crystals up and down within a cloud?

What is the most abundant gas found in the atmosphere?

What describes humidity?

In which layer does Earth's atmosphere absorb most of the Sun's radiation?

What does the Coriolis effect do?

What is a stationary front?

What occurs along a stationary front?

What happens as water condenses?

What are the low clouds?

What are the middle clouds?

What does stationary mean?

Why does lightning happen?

What is condensation?

What is precipitation?

What are factors of weather?

What storms does hail develop in?

What is an occluded front?

What can occluded fronts produce?

How does a warm front form?

What happens when a cold air mass advances and pushes under a warm air mass?

What can you see when a warm front approaches?

What are the four kinds of fronts?

When do the strongest winds occur?

Where do jet streams blow?

Why are jet streams important?

What does the stratosphere contain?

How high are cumulus clouds?

How high are the altocumulus clouds?

How high are cirrus clouds?

What is the charge that builds up on top of the storm cloud?

What does the troposphere contain?

What is the NWS?

How does temperature affect the amount of water vapor air can hold?

Solar radiation causes ions to continually form in Earth's ionosphere. Which has been one of the greatest benefits of ions in the ionosphere?

What is the definition of surface in relation to Earth's and warm?

Explain the concept of what in relation to front and weather?

Which layer of Earth's atmosphere contains the ozone that protects living things from too much ultraviolet radiation?

What is the main driving force of Earth's atmosphere?

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