Vocabulary
More vocabulary
Weather and the Atmosphere
More weather and atmosphere
Weather and the atmosphere 3
100
Instrument that measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
100
Puffy, cotton ball clouds that form when droplets of water condense at middle altitudes
What are cumulus clouds?
100
The amount of moisture in the air
What is humidity?
100
This instrument is used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
100

The moist and warm air mass forms in this area

What is near the equator

200
Particles of air pressing down on Earth's surface
What is air pressure?
200
Wispy, high altitude clouds
What are cirrus clouds?
200
Layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth
What is the troposphere?
200
This is where most of Earths ozone is
What is the stratosphere?
200
The type of air mass that forms over land near the north pole
What is dry and cold?
300
The layer of air that surrounds our planet
What is the atmosphere?
300
These clouds are seen on a gray, cloudy day and bring light rain or snow showers
What are stratus clouds?
300
The number of layers the atmosphere is divided into
What is four?
300
This is how clouds are classified
What is by shape, size, color and where they form in the atmosphere?
300
The kind of front that forms when a warm air mass catches up with a cold air mass
What is a cold front?
400
Layer of air that contains ozone and is located above the troposphere
What is the stratosphere?
400
These clouds are towering and dark with a nimbus, or halo, of gray-white. If you see them, it will probably rain soon.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
The layer of the atmosphere in which most weather occurs
What is the troposphere?
400
Instrument that meteorologists use to find wind direction
What is a weather vane or windsock?
400
2 factors that affect air pressure
What is humidity and air temperature?
500
The border where two air masses meet
What is a front?
500
The warming of Earth caused by the atmosphere trapping thermal energy
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
The reason scientists record weather information
What is to predict changes?
500
The way air pressure changes with height
What is decreases?
M
e
n
u