Professional Forecasting and Technology
A Closer Look at the Earth 1
A Closer Look at the Earth 2
Clouds 1
Clouds 2
100
People who study the atmosphere and weather forecasting
What is a meteorologist?
100
This is a model of the earth.
What is a globe?
100
This is the percentage of the Earth's atmosphere composed by Nitrogen
What is 78%?
100
Clouds are classified according to their ______ in the atmosphere: high, middle, low
What is altitude?
100
This type of cloud is round and in heaps.
What are cumulus clouds?
200
The two types of satellites are high orbit and..
What is low orbit?
200
These include the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and the exosphere.
What are the five layers of the atmosphere?
200
This is the percentage of the Earth's atmosphere composed by Oxygen
What is 21%?
200
This type of cloud forms from warm air rising, expanding, and cooling
What are frontal clouds?
200
This type of cloud is flattened and layered.
What are stratus clouds?
300
Radar is best at this kind of weather information gathering and forecasting.
What are thunderstorms and tornadoes?
300
This is the layer of the atmosphere that is most important to us.
What is the troposphere?
300
This is the percentage of the Earth's atmosphere composed by other gases than nitrogen and oxygen
What is 1%?
300
This type of clouds form from air moving up the side of a mountain
What is orographic clouds?
300
This is a cloud that forms near the ground
What is fog?
400
These are spacecraft that orbit the earth and gather weather-related data and send images to weather stations on the ground.
What are weather satellites?
400
This is a measure of the force exerted by the gas particles when they collide with objects on the surface of earth.
What is air pressure?
400
No clouds and fair weather is associated with this type of atmospheric pressure.
What is high atmospheric pressure?
400
These air masses are more dense than warm air masses.
What are cold air masses?
400
This type of clouds are associated with unstable weather conditions.
What is cumulus clouds?
500
These are helium-filled balloons that gather weather data as they rise in the atmosphere.
What are weather balloons?
500
The three main parts of the Earth that influence weather on the planet include landforms, water in its different states and ...
What is the atmosphere?
500
Clouds forming and rain falling is associated with this type of atmospheric pressure.
What is low atmospheric pressure?
500
This is when fog mostly occurs
What is clear nights?
500
This type of clouds are associated with stable weather conditions.
What is stratus clouds?
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