Water Cycle
Atmosheric Layers
Weather Tools
Cloud Types
Storms
100
When water turns into vapor from the heat increasing.
What is evaporation?
100
The lowest layer of the atmosphere, the place where all weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
100
A tool that measures how much rain has fallen.
What is a rain gauge?
100
A high cloud that is thin and wispy.
What is a cirrus cloud?
100
A storm that forms over the ocean that needs warm moisture to keep it going.
What is a hurricane?
200
When the water vapor returns to its original state and returns to the ground.
What is presipitation?
200
The layer where most meteors die out and is the coldest layer.
What is the Mesosphere?
200
A tool that measures which direction the wind is blowing.
What is a weather vain?
200
A dense towering cloud that is related to thunderstorms.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
200
A storm that that is formed by partially frozen snow or a mix of rain and snow.
What is sleet?
300
When positive and negitivge charges in the water droplets bump and combine to form bigger droplets.
What is coalescence?
300
The layer where the ozone layer exists.
What is the strotosphere?
300
A tool that measures the wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
A cloud on the ground.
What is fog?
300
A storm that involves lightning, thunder, and heavy rain.
What is a thunderstorm?
400
When water evaporates from a plant.
What is transpiration?
400
The two layers of the atmosphere that are based on the composition.
What is the homosphere and heterosphre?
400
A tool that measures if air pressure is rising or falling.
What is a barometer?
400
A cloud that appears to be small and rounded white puffs. When seen in the winter they mean fair, but cold weather.
What is cirrocumulus cloud?
400
A large wave that is triggered by and undersea earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
500
What the water vapor forms around. Some examples are dust, pollution, and ice.
What is condensation nuclei?
500
The highest and hottest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?
500
A tool used to measure how much humidity is in the air.
What is a psychrometer?
500
A dark gray wet looking cloud that usually involves continuous rain or snow.
What is a nimbostratus cloud?
500
A storm with freezing rain that covers everything in a glaze of ice.
What is an ice storm?
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