Earth's Atmosphere
This is the thin blanket of gases and dust particles that surrounds the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
This is the weight of the air.
What is air pressure?
Any type of liquid or solid that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground.
What is precipitation?
Water droplets in the clouds that join together to form larger drops
What is rain?
This is a rumble resulting from hot air instantly expanding and cooler air rushing in
What is thunder?
Air is a ____ of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other gases in the atmoshpere.
What is mixture?
Air pressure is measured using this.
What is barometer?
These clouds are large, fluffy-looking with flat bottoms.
What are cumulus clouds?
Ice crystals in the clouds that join together and fall to the earth
What is snow?
This is a funnel-shaped cloud of swirling winds that reaches down to the ground
What is tornado?
This tis the condition of the atmosphere at any moment in time.
What is weather?
This is the measurement of distance above sea level.
What is altitude?
These clouds are thin, curly-looking, and are seen high in the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
Raindrops that fall from warm air when the surface of the earth is below freezing, causing raindrops to freeze as they hit the earth
What is freezing rain?
This is a storm with spiraling winds that forms over the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean
What is hurricane?
This protects the surface of the earth.
What is ozone?
This measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
These clouds are thin, curly-looking, and are seen high in the sky.
What are cirrus clouds?
What is sleet?
The conditions are right for a type of severe weather to occur, but the weather isn't happening
What is weather watch?
The following list are all characteristics of the _____.
1. where weather occurs
2. holds in the radiant heat of the sun
3. helps keep the surface of Earth warm
4. contains about half of the air in the atmosphere
What is the troposhere?
This shows the direction the wind is blowing.
What is wind vane?
This prefix is added to the names of some clouds to show that clouds produce precipitation.
What is nimbo-?
What is hail?
Scientists who studies the atmosphere and weather
What are meteorologists?