Clouds
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The clouds that form storms.
What is Nimbus?
Name four main types of clouds.
What are Cirrus, Cumulus, Stratus, and Nimbus?
Occurs when cloud droplets collide and join together to form a larger droplet.
What is coalescence?
Number of layers in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is five?
Water in the form of gas.
What is water vapor?
This low to mid-level cloud is, fluffy, dense, and mostly composed of water.
What is Cumulus?
The small particle around which water droplets can form.
What is the condensation nucleus?
Three boundaries in the Earth's Atmosphere.
(Hint: Areas between layers of atmosphere)
What are Tropopause, Stratopause, and Mesopause?
The two gases mostly make up the Earth's atmosphere.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
____________ is a layer of gases that surrounds the Earth protecting it like a big blanket of heating.
What is atmosphere?
Name of a cloud of vertical formation.
What is Cumulonimbus?
This cloud is high-level, wispy, curly, and composed of ice crystals.
What is Cirrus?
________ is the coldest layer of the atmosphere.
What is Mesosphere?
The layer in which ozone absorbs sunlight.
What is stratosphere?
Second layer of the atmosphere; includes the ozone layer.
What is Stratosphere?
This mid-level cloud is flattened.
What is Altostratus?
This occurs when an air mass is forced to rise over elevated land or other topographic barriers.
What is Orographic lifting?
When water vapor cools and condenses, water vapor particles go together and turn into tiny droplets of water forming this.
What is a cloud?
The layer where weather forms.
What is the troposphere?
Satellites usually orbit in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is Exosphere?
This type of cloud is an indicator of good weather, it's name means "curl".
What is a cirrus cloud?
A cloud that is low, flat layer like a blanket and composed of water.
What is a Stratus cloud?
_______ is the hottest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Thermosphere?
Name the different layers of the Earth's atmosphere.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?
This is composed of three oxygen atoms.
What is ozone?