What's Above
It's layered
Moving air masses
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The air that surrounds our planet.
What is the atmosphere?
100

The layer of the atmosphere closest to earth.

What is troposphere?

100
The two characteristics or properties of air masses
What are temperature and moisture level?
100
These are high, thin wispy clouds.
What are cirrus clouds?
100
How rain fall is measured
What is a rain gauge?
200
The air particles pressing downon a surface.
What is air pressure?
200
The layer of atmosphere where most of the bad weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
200
The boarder that is formed when two air masses meet
What is a front?
200
These high towering clouds signal a summer thunderstorm
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
200
Instrument that measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
300
The layer of atmosphere where most of the weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
300
The hottest layer of the atmosphere
What is the thermosphere?
300
A large body of air that has temperature and moisture similar to the land or water over which it forms
What is an air mass?
300
These clouds form close to the earth and look like a roof of solid, gray clouds.
What stratus clouds?
300
Instrument that measures humidity
What is a hygrometer?
400
The layer above the troposphere where planes fly long distances.
What is the stratosphere?
400
Where ozone is found
What is the stratosphere?
400
When a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet, which mass is lighter and gets pushed upward?
What is warm air?
400
These are clues that a front is moving into an area
What are 1) wind change, 2) temperature change, 3) air pressure change, 4) precipitation
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The amound to moisture in the atmosphere
What is humidity?
500
The higher you go in the atmosphere, the less of this there is.
What is the amount of air pressure?
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The coldest layer of the atmosphere
What is mesosphere?
500
The beginning place of all weather and of air mass movement.
What is the sun?
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The unit of measure for wind speed
What is km/h or m/h? (kilometers per hour or miles per hour)
500
The unit of measurement for precipitation
What is inches or centimeters?
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