Marine Biology
This is the study of living things under the sea.
What is marine biology?
The science of farming the sea.
What is aquaculture?
This cloud prefix means "rain."
What is nimbus?
This measurement is the amount of water vapor that the air is actually holding.
What is relative humidity?
The lowest layer of our atmosphere. Nearly all clouds are in this layer.
What is the troposphere?
This is the movement of deeper layers of water towards the surface, bringing up nutrients from decayed materials.
What is upwelling?
This is a phenomenon that causes upwelling to stop, causing waters to turn warmer.
The lowest type of cloud, having a uniform gray layer, and causing drizzle but never heavy rain.
What is a stratus cloud?
Weather consists of these three factors.
The level above the troposphere. Most planes fly here due to little air resistance.
What is the stratosphere?
Tiny animals and larger sea larvae.
What are zooplankton?
Microscopic marine plants.
What are phytoplankton?
A dense, puffy, cauliflower-like cloud that usually signals good weather.
What is a cumulus cloud?
This tool measures atmospheric pressure when at sea.
What is an aneroid barometer?
This layer can also be referred to as the ozone layer.
What is the chemosphere?
This is the most deadly jellyfish.
What is a box jellyfish?
These are shrimplike animals that gnaw and attack underwater pipes and submarine cables.
What are gribbles?
This cloud causes severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. It is only seen in summer.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
This person created the first hygrometer, which was used to measure humidity.
Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?
The ionosphere consists of these two layers.
What are the mesosphere and thermosphere?
This gas gives the Black Sea its name, and is also the reason why life cannot exist in its deeper layers.
What is hydrogen sulfide?
This is the most venomous fish.
What is the stonefish?
This cloud consists of gray or whitish layers that are puffy and fleecy. The presence of these clouds means that rain is coming within 24 hours.
What is an altocumulus cloud?
This tool, used to measure humidity, consists of two ordinary alcohol thermometers mounted together on a single strip of material.
What is a psychrometer?
This artificial radiation belt was created due to the detonation of a hydrogen bomb at a height of 250 miles.
What is the starfish ring?