Precipitation
Measurement of Weather
Atmosphere
Extreme Weather
Cloud Types
100
This is the most common type of precipitation in the world
What is rain
100
This kind of scientist studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100
This is the layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth, where most weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
100
Hurricanes can only form over this type of body of water.
What is the ocean?
100
This fluffy cloud might be seen on a day with good weather.
What is a cumulus cloud?
200
This type of precipitation is made of frozen crystals of water.
What is snow?
200
This tool can be used to measure the temperature of the atmosphere.
What is a thermometer?
200
This layer of the atmosphere contains most of the Earth's protective ozone.
What is the stratosphere?
200
These are THREE effects of a thunderstorm.
What are - hail, rain/floods, wind/tornadoes, lightning, thunder?
200
This cloud type is composed of ice crystals high in the sky.
What is a cirrus cloud?
300
Unlike snow, this type of precipitation goes through a liquid phase before freezing.
What is sleet?
300
This device is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
This outermost layer is the hottest atmospheric layer
What is the thermosphere?
300
The highest wind speeds on Earth were recorded in this type of extreme weather
What is a tornado?
300
This extremely tall cloud can be invloved in thunderstorms and other bad weather
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
400
This type of precipitation is formed of super-chilled water droplets
What is freezing rain
400
This tool can be used to measure the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
400
This is the coldest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere?
400
These are two parts of a hurricane
What are - eye, eye wall, feeder/spiral/rain bands
400
This low cloud creates an overcast sky.
What is a stratus cloud?
500
This type of precipitation forms by circulating within a cumulonimbus cloud.
What is hail?
500
If the weather is good, a barometer will show this kind of reading
What is high (or high air pressure)
500
Earth's atmosphere is composed MOSTLY of this gas.
What is nitrogen?
500
A thunderstorm begins as this type of cloud.
What is a cumulus cloud?
500
This cloud has an anvil-like shape.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
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