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This is the layer of the atmosphere that airplanes travel long distances in.
What is stratosphere?
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This is a large body of air with similar temperature and moisture throughout.
What is an air mass?
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This is the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
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a thin blanket of air that surrounds the entire planet
What is atmosphere?
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This makes up about one-fifth of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
200
This is a layer in the atmosphere that most weather happens in.
What is troposphere?
200
This type of cloud usually produces heavy rains and thunderstoms.
What is cumulonimbus?
200
Small dashes on a weather map may stand for this.
What is rain?
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This instrument is used to measure the temperature of the air.
What is a thermometer?
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We live in this layer of the atmosphere and breathe its air.
What is troposphere?
300
Temperatures in this layer can reach thousands of degrees Celsius.
What is thermosphere?
300
This is an area where two air masses meet and where weather happens.
What is a front?
300
This is a person who studies the weather and measures weather conditions.
What is a meteorologist?
300
This measures the moisture in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
300
This air mass forms over water.
What is a moist air mass?
400
This helps keep the planet warm.
What is carbon dioxide?
400
This type of front shows a line with triangles on it.
What is a cold front?
400
This instrument is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
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This is used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
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This is a front that stops moving.
What is a stationary front?
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These gas particles make up about four-fifths of the earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
500
This is the type of cloud that forms during a tornado.
What is a funnel cloud?
500
This is used to find wind direction.
What is a weather vane or a windsock.
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This is the warming of the Earth caused by the atmosphere trapping thermal energy from the sun.
What is the greenhouse effect?
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These are the things used to classify clouds.
What are shape, color, and where they form?
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