vocabulary 1
vocabulary 2
types of clouds
Layers of the atmosphere
Solar Fundamentals
100

gas that forms around a layer around the earth

ozone

100

cloud formation that happens when wind hits a mountain.

Orographic lifting

100

wispy and stringy clouds

cirrus 

100

What is the layer closest to earth's surface?

Troposphere

100

What is the transfer of energy through space by visible light?

Radiation

200

amount is always changing varies with seasons altitude and type of environments.

water vapor

200

ability of an air mass to resist rising

stability

200

puffy and lumpy clouds

cumulus

200

What layer is above the tropopause?

Stratosphere

200

What is the transfer of energy by the flow of a heated substance?

Convection

300

transfer of energy through space as visible light.

radiation

300

energy that was used to change H2O into vapor is stored in H2O vapor

latent heat 

300

sheets of clouds

stratus

300

What layer is above the stratopause?

Mesosphere

300

the process by which heat or electricity is directly transmitted through a substance when there is a difference of temperature

conduction

400

transfer of energy from one substance to another when they collide because they are in direct contact.

conduction 

400
the point when air is holding as much water as it possibly can

saturation

400

gray rain clouds

nimbus

400

What layer contains only a minute portion of the atmosphere's mass?

Thermosphere

400

What doesn't heat air directly?

Solar radiation

500

transfer of energy by the flow of the heated substance

convection

500

when smaller droplets collide and from lager droplets, as more collision takes place the droplets get to heavy and gravity pulls it to earth.

coalescence

500

1.high clouds 6000m


2.middle clouds 2000m


3. low clouds below 2000m

1.cirro


2.alto


3.strato

500

What is the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere?

Exosphere

500

What percent of radiation is reflected by the atmosphere?

6%

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