Clouds
These clouds are sheet-like, low clouds.
What is a stratus cloud?
What is condensation nuclei
Measures how fast the atoms move (kinetic energy/heat created)
What is a thermometer?
What is the thermosphere?
Highest in the sky; thin and wispy; made of ice crystals
What is a cirrus cloud?
This is a thin, wispy sheet-like cloud.
What is cirrostratus
Measures the pressure of the air.
What is a barometer
This layer gets hotter as you go upward towards the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
The difference between an altostratus and stratus cloud.
Altostratus are middle height, and stratus are low.
ALSO ACCEPTABLE: Altostratus are made of water vapor and ice; stratus are made of water vapor.
What is a decreases?
Big and puffy; white; cloud with vertical development
What is a cumulus cloud?
What happens to energy when water vapor droplets condense to form clouds?
They lose energy
When rain water moves across the surface of Earth to lakes, rivers, etc..
What is runoff?
Measures windspeed.
What is an anomometer?
This is what determines when a new layer of the atmosphere starts and ends.
What is a change in the temperature (increasing or decreasing)?
You may see dark skies and thunderstorms with these puffy, dark storm clouds
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
What are the two mid-level clouds?
Altostratus and altocumulus.
The process when rain moves through the ground.
Seepage would also be acceptable.
Person who predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
List at least 4 special features of the troposphere.
What is: layer we live in, temperature drops here, planes fly here, weather occurs here, most dense/highest air pressure here, closest to Earth?