Atmosphere
Weather
Clouds
Winds (Use for study guide)
100

What occurs in the troposphere and nowhere?

Weather

100

What is precipitation?

Rain, snow, sleet, hail etc. Any form of water falling out of the sky.

100

What is the name of the cloud known as the rain cloud?

Nimbostratus

100

What phenomena that occurs due to the tilt and rotation of the Earth called?

The Coriolis Effect

200

What sub layer that protects us from UV rays is in the stratosphere?

The Ozone Layer

200

What is the dewpoint?

The temperature water vapor reaches to where it can condense and form a cloud

200

What low layer cloud has a cottonball like appearance and does not bring much precipitation?

Cumulus Clouds

200

The Earth rotates counter clockwise or clockwise in the northern hemisphere

counterclockwise

300

What giant wind current that shifts from season to season, pilots heavily rely on and change the weather?

The Jet Stream

300

Low pressure areas tend to?

Have areas of high precipitation and humid 

300

What type of clouds will you find in the high level?

Cirrus, Cirrostratus and Cirrocumulus

300

The Earth rotates clockwise or counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere

clockwise

400

This hottest layer of the atmosphere 

Thermosphere

400

Areas with High pressure areas tend to be

Dry, arid etc.

400

What cloud that forms in the low level but is present in all three brings thunder, lightning and other stormy weather; Also is normally present in warmer weather.

Cumulonimbus clouds/ Thunderhead

400

The Coriolis Effect deflect objects in what direction in the northern hemisphere? 

Right

500

Thi sublayer lies between the mesosphere and thermosphere that is composed of ionized electrons and allows radio waves to transmit. 

Ionosphere

500

A cold front is represented on a weather map with what colored shape?

Blue triangles

500

What cloud normally precedes on coming nimbostratus clouds.

Altostratus

500

The Coriolis Effect deflects wind in what direction in the Southern Hemisphere?

To the left

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