Clouds
Clouds that have a flat base and are puffy. Associated with fair weather.
What is Cumulus?
A front that separates warm air replacing with colder air. Precipitation forms along the boundary
What is a Cold Front?
Layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the Troposphere?
Precipitation that falls to the surface as water droplets.
What is Rain?
A weather pattern that causes 3 or more days of temperatures above 90 degrees F.
What is Heat Wave?
Clouds that are gray and have a blanket-like appearance. Associated with precipitation.
A front that separates cold air that replacing warm air. Precipitation forms ahead of the boundary.
What is a Warm Front?
Layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer.
What is Stratosphere?
Precipitation that falls to the surface as ice crystals.
What is Snow?
A weather pattern that causes an area to have a lack of precipitation over a long period of time.
What is Drought?
Clouds that are wispy and high in the atmosphere.
What is Cirrus?
A front that stops moving and wind flows parallel along with it.
What is a Stationary Front?
Layer of the atmosphere that temperature decreases to its coldest and burns up meteors and asteroids.
What is the Mesosphere?
Precipitation that initially falls as ice crystals that melts and refreezes in a deep layer and hit the surface as pellets.
What is Sleet?
A warm core storm that forms over oceans that have an eye.
What is a Hurricane?
Clouds that are vertically displaced are typically associated with thunerstorms.
What is Cumulonimbus?
A frontal boundary that is associated with a low pressure system, where a cold front overtakes a warm front.
What is Occluded Front?
Layer of the atmosphere that is farthest away from the surface and is home to the International Space Station and satellites.
What is Thermosphere?
Precipitation that initially falls as ice crystals and melts in a deep warming layer, then refreezes in a shallow freezing layer and freezes on contact with surfaces.
What is Freezing Rain?
A funnel cloud that extends from the cloud base to the surface and rotates. Known for lofting debris.
What is a Tornado?
Cloud at the surface that dissipates with sunlight.
What is Radiation Fog?
A boundary that separates moist air and dry air.
What is a Dryline?
What are the two most prevalent gasses in the atmosphere?
What are Nitrogen (78%) and Oxygen (21%)?
What is Virga?
Strom that forms along the East Coast and bring strong winds and heavy precipitation.
What is Nor'Easter?