Atmospheric Layers
Cloud Types
Weather Conditions
Weather Tools
Tools to Predict Weather
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Where Weather Occurs?
What is Troposphere
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Called the Thunderhead.
What is the Cumulonimbus Cloud.
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Produces long periods of warm temperatures and precipitation.
What is a Warm Front.
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Used to measure the amount of precipitation in inches.
What is a Rain Gauge.
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Can help to predict weather by indicating high or low pressure systems, movement of air masses and fronts, or temperature range.
What are Weather Maps.
200
The Final Layer of the Atmosphere.
What is The Exosphere.
200
Formed at a low to medium level and spread out layer upon layer covering a large area.
What is the Stratus Cloud.
200
Huge bodies of air that form over water or land in tropical or polar regions.
What is an Air Mass.
200
A toll the measures the direction of the wind.
What is a Wind Vane.
200
Someone that studies the Earths weather.
What is a Meteorologist.
300
The coldest Layer of the Atmosphere.
What is the Mesosphere.
300
Clouds are puffy with flat bottoms and for at low or medium elevations.
What is Clumulus.
300
Very low pressure and strong winds in a funnel can cause great damage to people and property.
What is a Tornado
300
A tool that measures temperature.
What is a Thermometer.
300
Weather conditions that can be observed and or measured.
What is Direct Observation and Measurements.
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Is cold except in it's upper region where the Ozone is located.
What is the Stratosphere.
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A prefix used to indicate clouds that form at medium level at about 2 - 6 kilometers up in the atmosphere.
What is Alto.
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Weather condition that occurs when pressure differences cause rapid air movement.
What is a Storm.
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A tool that uses a wet and a dry bulb to measure the relative humidity.
What is a Sling Psychrometer.
400
Used to detect cloud cover, rainfall or storm location, intensity and movement, as well as the potential for severe weather.
What is Radar.
500
Even though the air is thin it is very hot.
What is the Thermosphere.
500
Clouds formed at high elevations.
What is Cirrus Clouds.
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A counterclockwise circulating winds often result in rainy and stormy weather conditions.
What is a Low Pressure System.
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A tool to measure air pressure.
What is a Barometer.
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Used for seeing cloud patterns and movements.
What is a Satellite.
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