Layered Up
Goes round and round
Don't pressure me
What goes up
Up in the sky
100
The layer where the shuttle orbits the earth.
What is the thermosphere?
100
The 3 parts of the water cycle.
What evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
100
Pounds of pressure per square inch of your body
What is 14.7 (15) lbs.?
100
Tool for measuring temperature.
What is thermometer?
100
Big thunderstorm clouds
What are cumulonimbus?
200
Most weather occurs here.
What is the troposphere?
200
Water vapor form molecules of water droplets and bond together to form clouds.
What is condensation?
200
Nice weather, cloudless sky,
What is a high pressure?
200
Measurement of the speed and movement of air particles and how it feels on our body.
What is temperature?
200
Low, layered, gray clouds that cover the sky
What are stratus?
300
Meteorites burn up in this layer.
What is the mesosphere?
300
Rain, sleet, hail, snow
What is precipitation?
300
The amount of air pressure the higher up you travel.
What is less dense?
300
Moisture in the air
What is humidity?
300
White, puffy clouds that usually have a flatish gray bottom
What are cumulus?
400
The reason the thermosphere is the warmest layer.
What is the sun?
400
The earth heating up which causes water vapor to enter the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
400
Represented by a red "L" on a weather map and is associated with stormy weather and a cloudy sky.
What is a low pressure?
400
A wall cloud is a lowering out of the base of a thunderstorm. This develops as a result of the downdraft.
What is a tornado?
400
Light, feathery, wispy, high clouds
What are cirrius?
500
The layer where jet planes fly.
What is the stratosphere?
500
Water vapor leaving plants.
What is transpiration?
500
The reason we don't feel the heavy pressure on our bodies.
What is we have equal pressure inside our bodies pushing out?
500
Two factors that may result in a hurricane losing its energy.
What are moving over land and moving through colder water.
500
Type of air that holds more moisture (humidity).
What is warm air?
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