Clouds
Weather
Layers of the Atmosphere
Ecological Relationships
Surface Weather Maps
100

Alto- indicates this level of clouds.

What is mid-level?

100

This effect helps weather personnel determine is a storm is moving toward a specific location or away from it.

What is the Doppler Effect?

100

This is the middle layer of the atmosphere.

What is the mesosphere?

100

An animal that hunts another animal to eat it is called this.

What is a predator?

100

This is what a large H stands for on a surface weather map.

What is high?
200

Cirrus clouds look like this.

What is wispy, curly hair?

200

These winds occur between 30 deg north latitude and 30 deg south latitude and also include the equatorial region.

What are the trade winds?

200

This layer of the atmosphere is the outermost layer.

What is the exopshere?

200

This ecological relationship is when one organism is harmed and the other benefits from a close relationship.

What is parasitism?

200

This is a line of equal barometric pressure.

What is an isobar?

300

Cumulus clouds look like this.

What is a heap, pile, or cauliflower?

300

This term is defined as a collision of two air masses.

What is a front?

300

Weather occurs in this layer of the atmosphere.

What is the troposhere?

300

This ecological relationship is when two organisms living closely together both benefit.

What is mutualism?

300

This is a line of equal temerature.

What is an isotherm?

400

These are the four main types of clouds.

What are nimbus, cirrus, stratus, and cummulus?

400

These are the three major components of weather.

What are wind, water, and temperature?

400

The ozone layer can be found in this layer of the atmosphere.

What is the stratosphere?

400

This ecological relationship is when one organism benefits and the other neither benefits or is harmed when living closely together with one another.

What is commensalism?

400

This describes a warm front on a surface weather map.

What is a red line with red half circles on it?

500

Cumulonimbus clouds would normally produce this type of weather.

What are thunderstorms or rain?

500

This instrument is used to measure barometric (atmospheric) pressure.

What is a barometer?

500

This atmospheric boundary lies directly above the stratosphere.

What is the stratopause?

500

When a small group of grizzly bears fight over salmon at a waterfall, it is this specific type of competition.

What is intraspecific?

500

This describes a stationary front.

What is a red and blue line with red half circles and blue triangles (that alternate sides)?

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