clouds
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Forecast
natural disasters
pollution
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What is altocumulus ?
100
The state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc
What is weather?
100
pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.(ice falling from the sky)
What is hail?
100
a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
What is a tornado?
100
rainfall made sufficiently acidic by atmospheric pollution
What is acid rain?
200
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STRATUS OR FOG ?What is Stratus or fog? --
Stratus clouds and fog are the same thing---
TRICK QUESTION!!!!!!
200
It is lowest layer of the Earth's atmoshphere, in this layer air is heated from the ground up. This is also where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
200
a form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.
What is sleet?
200
A storm with a violent wind and rain.
What is a hurricane?
200
a brown haze created when the suns rays hit chemicals
What is photochemical smog?
300
These are thin, wispy clouds blown by high winds into long streamers.
They are considered "high clouds". They usually mean pleasant weather.
What is cirrus ?
300
A weather instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure
What is a barometer?
300
a loud sound due to the expansion of rapidly heated air
What is thunder?
300
Storms characterized by heavy snow and strong winds.
What is a blizzard?
300
Increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere contributes significantly to
What is Global warming?
400
This is a dark gray cloud layer diffused by falling rain or snow. It results from thickening Altostratus. It is also known as "the continuous rain cloud." It is thick enough to blot out the sun.
( Nimbostratus or Cumulus)
What is nimbostratus?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name 8 types of precipitation
What are rain, drizzle, snow, sleet, freezing rain, hail, Graupel, freezing drizzle, freezing fog, ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets, or mixed precipitation?
400
Freezes when it touches the ground
What is freezing rain?
400
A period of unusually and excessively hot weather.
What is a heat wave?
400
Excessive coal combustion releases sulfur dioxide and causes this type of weather pollution.
What is acid rain?
500
Name 2 types of "high cloud."
What is cumulonimbus, cirrocumulus, or cirrus?
500
Ozone, is abundant in this layer. Ozone heats this layer as it absorbs energy from incoming ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
What is Stratosphere?
500
Created by separation of charges into positive and negative ions.
What is lightning?
500
The country that experiences the most tornadoes.
What is USA?
500
Largest source of carbon monoxide pollution of the atmosphere --- ( Automobiles or power plants)
What are automobiles?