CLOUDS
ATMOSPHERE
TOOLS
WEATHER TERMS
POTPOURRI
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Stratus Cloud image

What is a low, foggy cloud?

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A part of the atmosphere where most airplanes travel

What is the troposphere?

100

A type of radar that detects precipitation

What is doppler radar?

100

Cold air that pushes in and brings rain and thunderstorms.

What is a cold front?

100

The part of the atmosphere where most clouds form

What is the troposphere?

200

Nimbostratus weather

What is rain and snowy, but not a thunderstorm?

200

The ozone layer lives here

What is the stratosphere?

200

The definition of humidity

What is the measure of water vapor in the air?

200

Brings in lousy weather

What is low pressure?

200

The part of the atmosphere between 7.5 and 31 miles up

What is the stratosphere?

300

Puffy type cloud

What is a cumulus cloud?

300

Meteroids fly through this part of the atmosphere

What is the mesosphere?

300

Atmospheric pressure measuring tool

What is a barometer?

300

A weather system that creates a line of thunderstorms or tornadoes

What is a dry line?

300

Long chemical name for CFC

What is chlorofluorocarbons

400

Highest cloud

What is the cirrus cloud?

400

A part of the atmosphere with no clouds and no water

What is thermosphere?

400

Definition of dew point

What is the temperature where water vapor becomes liquid water?

400

A type of front that brings in strong winds and rain

What is an occluded front?

400

The science of the study of weather

What is meteorology?

500

A no precipitation cloud

What is a cumulus cloud?

500

A part of the atmosphere where satellites circulate around the planet

What is the exosphere?

500

Wind speed measuring device

What is an anemometer?

500

High pressure signals this type of weather

What is good weather?

500

Ozone layer purpose

What is absorbs UV radiation?

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