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Science exam unit 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is weather | the conditions of the atmosphere at a given type and place |
| what are the three main cloud types | cummoules clouds- puffy white and grey clouds that appear pretty low in the sky cirrus clouds- pretty high they are thin and wispy stratus clouds- pretty low gray often coverr the entire sky |
| what are the 5 charctirestics of a cummuouis clods | 1. produce the biggest rain drops of all the clouds 2. typically produce lighting 3. the only cloud to produce hail 4. typically produce tornadoes 5. produce cummulus cloud |
| what is a front? what are the four different types of clouds? | occulted fronts, cold frount clouds, warm founts, staotnairy founts |
| what is an air mass | a large body of air they move by weather |
| what are the layers of the atmosphere | stratosphere, troposphere,mespohere,thermosphere, and exosphere they are separated by temputare changes. they all contain uv radiation |
| what two layers of the atmosphere specifically pretct us. | stratosphere and iosphere |
| what is the green house affect | it affects temputare and it produces carbon dioxide |