Energy Transfer
Layers of Atmosphere
Clouds
Fronts
Weather Instruments
100
Boiling water in a pot on the stove would be an example of what.
What is conduction?
100
Layer of atmosphere closest to the earth.
What is the troposphere?
100
What are high, flat, wispy clouds?
What are cirrostratus clouds?
100
When a warm air mass meets a cold air mass and no movement occurs.
What is a stationary front?
100
Measures the air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
200
What is the transfer of heat through heat waves.
What is radiation?
200
The atmosphere farthest away from the earth.
What is the exosphere?
200
Name a cloud that is below 6,000 feet.
What is stratocumulus, stratus, and cumulus?
200
When a cold front overtakes a cold front.
What is an occluded front?
200
Measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
The direct transfer of heat.
What is conduction?
300
The layer of atmosphere that contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
300
Name one cloud that is above 18,000 feet in the air.
What is cirrocumulus, cirrus and cumulonimbus?
300
When a cold air mass meets and pushes under a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
300
Measures relative humidity.
What is a sling psychrometer?
400
What is the transfer of heat through fluid or air.
What is convection?
400
Layer of atmosphere that meteors burn up in.
What is the mesosphere?
400
What is the cycle when clouds form?
What is condensation?
400
When a mass of warm air overtakes a cold air mass and moves over it.
What is a warm front?
400
Measures water vapor.
What is a hydrometer?
500
The transfer of thermal heat between substances due to a difference in their temperatures.
What is heat transfer?
500
How many layers of atmosphere are there?
What is five?
500
Stratus, Cirrus, Cumulus, and Nimbus.
What are the four main types of clouds?
500
What are the four main types of fronts.
What is the cold front, warm front, occluded front, and stationary front?
500
Measures the amount of rain.
What is a rain gauge?
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