This type of cloud forms layers and are formed as a mass of warm air is slowly pushed upward over a mass of colder air or over a mountain.
What is a stratus cloud?
100
The hot, outermost layer of air.
What is the thermosphere?
100
This climate has cold winters; warm summers; moderate percipitation.
What is the Temperate Zone?
100
When water falls to the Earth after cloud drops come together. They can fall to the earth as rain, snow and in other forms.
What is precipitation?
200
Tool used to measure the air pressure, which is the weight of the atmosphere.
What is a barometer?
200
This type of cloud forms when large bubbles of warm air rise rapidly into the atmosphere. The clouds look piled up and puffy. They usually mean fair weather, but they can produce light rain or snow showers.
What is a cumulus cloud?
200
This layer is the coldest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere?
200
This zone has cold winters, cool summers;moderate to heavy participation.
What is the Mountain Zone?
200
The process of liquid water changing to water vapor is called this.
What is evaporation?
300
This tool measures the amount of precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
300
These clouds are high clouds made mostly of ice crystals They look thin and wispy. These clouds are usually associated with fair weather, but they mean that a change in weather conditions is coming.
What is cirrus clouds?
300
The layer found closest to the earth. We live in this layer and breathe its air.
What is the troposphere?
300
This zone is hot all year; moderate to heavy precipitation.
What is the Tropical Zone?
300
High up in the atmosphere, where the air is cooler, water vapor turns back into liquid drops of water, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
400
This tool measures the amount of water in the air, called humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
400
These clouds are a type of cumulus cloud. These clouds are tall and bring thundershowers and sometimes hail. These clouds are also called thunderheads or thunderclouds.
What is cumulonimbus clouds?
400
Some airplanes that fly great distances fly inb this layer to be above most bad weather.
What is the stratosphere?
400
This zone is cold all year; light precipitation.
What is the Polar Zone?
400
Precipitation that sinks into the ground is called this.
What is ground water?
500
This type of tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
These clouds produce rain or snow.
What is nimbostratus clouds?
500
The number of layers of the earth's atmosphere.
What is four?
500
This zone has hot summers, cool winters; light precipitation.
What is the Desert Zone?
500
Precipitation that runs off Earth's surface into rivers, lakes and oceans is called.