Layers
Where we live
What is Troposphere?
Liquid water turns into a gas
What is Evaporation?
Masses of white puffy clouds
What is Cumulus clouds?
What is a barometer?
Can bring very violent weather
What is a cold front?
Transition to space
What is Exosphere?
Water on the ground stays on the surface and runs over the ground to the ditches and streams
What is Runoff?
Associated with thunderstorms, come from cumulus clouds
What is Cumulonimbus clouds?
The tool to measure temperature
What is a thermometer?
Warm air slowly rises over cooler air
What is a warm front?
Where the ozone layer is
What is Stratosphere?
Cooling of water vapor to the dew point
What is Condensation?
Forms layers or sheets in the sky
What is Stratus clouds?
How hot or cold it is
What is Temperature?
cold air forces warm air up quickly
What is a cold front?
Coldest Layer
What is Mesosphere?
Clouds become saturated and Precipitate
What is Precipitation?
Very high clouds that are wispy and often look like hooks
What is Cirrus clouds?
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is Humidity?
The boundary stops advancing and may remain in the same place for days
What is a stationary front?
Ionosphere is within this layer
What is Thermosphere?
Plants give off water vapor as they do photosynthesis
What is Transpiration?
Prefixes for where clouds form
Low clouds
Mid-level clouds
High clouds
What is Strato-, Alto-, and Cirro-?
The temperature at which the air is saturated and what temp it needs to be cooled to begin condensation
What is Dew Point?
Cold air overruns warm air and forces the warm air between two areas of cooler air
What is an occluded front?