Atmosphere 1
This is the first layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposhere?
This is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
This weather symbol is a line with triangles on it.
What is cold front?
This type of severe storm typically builds over a large body of water.
What is a hurricane?
This is the area where air masses meet and do not mix.
What is a front?
This is the middle layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Mesosphere?
This is the second most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
This weather symbol is a line with half circles on it.
What is warm front?
This type of severe storm forms inside of a cumulonimbus cloud.
What is a thunderstorm?
This is the horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to low pressure.
What is wind?
This is the layer of the atmosphere in which weather occurs.
What is the Troposphere?
This layer of the atmosphere has the greatest air pressure.
What is the troposphere?
On a weather map, a capital H means this.
What is an area of high pressure?
This type of severe weather is related to no rain, high pressure, high temperatures, and low humidity.
What is a drought?
This type of front usually brings strong storms.
What is a cold front.
The ozone layer helps protect the earth. This is the layer of the atmosphere in which the ozone layer is located.
What is the Stratosphere?
This layer of the atmosphere is where auroras occur.
What is the thermosphere?
On a weather map, a capital L means this.
What is an area of low pressure.
This type of severe weather has an "eye" which is a calm center.
What is a hurricane?
This is the tool used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
Satellites orbit in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Exosphere?
This is what happens to air pressure as altitude increases.
What is "air pressure decreases?"
This type of front is marked on a weather map with alternating triangles and half circles on the same side of a line.
What is an occluded front.
This is the result of sudden energy discharges between parts of a cloud or between the cloud and the ground during a thunderstorm.
What is lightening?
What is a huge body of air that has similar pressure, temperature, and humidity.
What is an air mass?