What cloud forms when cumulus clouds strech vertically?
What is Cumulonimbus
100
_______ froms when air rises, cools to a dew point, and condenses into small particales.
What is clouds
100
All weather takes place in what zone ?
What is troposphere
100
When water is heated and rises this is called ....
What is evaportaion
100
What causes the earth to experience different climates
What is the angle the sun strikes the area of the earth due to the tilt
200
The word nimbus attached to a cloud's name will indicate
What is a storm ( rain, snow, sleet or hail)
200
When air defects this is due to the earth's rotation. The name for the deflecting winds is the _________ _______.
What is Coriolis Effect
200
The ozone absorbs the harmful UV rays. What is this zone called?
What is stratosphere
200
As the warm water rises high it begins to cool. The cooling condenses to form a cloud. When this occurs this is called ....
What is condensation
200
Why is the areas around the equator tropical
What is direct sun light
300
When a cloud makes a veil around the moon or sun this is a cirrostratus. This will indicate what if wind direction is coming out of the northeast due south?
What is rain within 24 hours
300
The process of warm air rising and cool air sinking is called __________
What is convection
300
Electrically charged particles in the thermosphere are refered to as?
What is ions
300
Water never ending process is called
What is the water cycle
300
Why are the north and south poles polar?
What is indirect angle
400
The high clouds such as cirrus are composed of tiny ice crystals. Why are high clouds formed of ice?
What is high altitude
400
Varying _________ cause wind
What is tempertures
400
The aurora borealis is formed from solar flairs from the sun. They refract in the ionized air. What zone is this found?
What is ionosphere
400
Tiny solids and liquid droplets in the atmosphere such as pollen, dirt,ice and VOC's from coolents.
What is aerosols
400
Giant rivers of air that develop at high altitudes that bring rain are called....
What is jet strem
500
When a cloud streches horizonally thes clouds are ?
What is status
500
Measure of the amount of water vapor in the air compared to the specfic temperature.
What is relative humidity
500
Name the layers in order from the bottom of the atmosphere to the exophere
What is troposhere - stratosphere - mesosphere - thermosphere ( divided into ionosphere and exosphere)
500
Layers of gases surrounding the Earth
What is the Atmosphere
500
Air planes can spray silver iodine into the atmophere casing it to rain where regions are having drought. This is called ....