ATMOSPHERE
Level closest to the earth
What is troposphere?
Clouds are created by this
What is condensation?
Winds are caused by differences in these two things
What are temperature and pressure?
Type of air mass that sinks
What is cold air mass?
Weather tool used to measure temperature
What is a thermometer?
Contains the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere?
Thin, white wispy clouds that curl high up in the atmosphere
What is cirrus?
Winds closest to the equator
What are trade winds?
Type of air mass that rises
What is a warm air mass?
The term used to describe the outside conditions of air at a certain place and time
What is weather?
Farthest away from the earth
What is the exosphere?
These clouds are formed in layers
What is stratus?
Wind system over the US
What are the prevailing westerlies?
Air masses that form over land are called this
What is continental?
This term is used to describe the average outside conditions of a place over a long time
What is climate?
Where space shuttles an space stations orbit
What is the thermosphere?
Round, puffy, heaped clouds that indicate fair weather
What are cumulus?
This is the coldest wind system
What are the polar easterlies?
Air masses that form over water
What are marine air masses?
Very strong , fast wind current that moves up or down over the United States
What is the Jet Stream?
Coldest layer where meteors burn up
What is the mesosphere?
Vertical storm clouds
What are cumulonimbus?
Special name given to the curving of winds due to the rotation of earth
What is the Coriolis Effect?
These three things must be the same in an air mass
What are temperature, moisture and pressure?
This happens when wind pushes up the side of a mountain, drops its moisture and flows down the other side, creating a desert
What is the rain-shadow effect?