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The Atmosphere
Precipitation
Water Cycle
Clouds
Vocabulary
100
The atmosphere is mainly a mixture of these 2 gases.
What is nitrogen and oxygen?
100
This is the most common form of precipitation.
What is rain.
100

This occurs when liquid water gets energy and becomes a gas

What is evaporation?

100

Clouds that look wispy or feathery are called

What cirrus clouds

100

This moves from west to east and greatly affects weather 

What is the jet stream

200
Air pressure does this as altitude increases.
What is decreases.
200
These are ice pellets that are larger than 5 mm and form during a thunderstorm.
What is hail.
200

Water falls and moves on the surface 

What is runoff?

200
These clouds produce snow.
What are nimbo stratus.
200

This occurs at night when land cools faster than

What is a land breeze

300
This is the chemical formula for ozone and its location in the atmosphere.
What is O3 and the stratosphere.
300
This is the reason why weather around the word is different.
What is the uneven heating of the earth.
300

Rain, sleet, snow , freezing rain are forms of this

What is precipitation?

300
These clouds form at or near the ground.
What is fog
300

This occurs when warm air rises and cold air sinks.

What is a convection current

400
These are the 4 main layers of the atmosphere in order from the Earth.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere
400

This forms when rain touches really cold surfaces.

What is freezing rain.

400

When water leaves plants and trees and becomes part of the water cycle

What is transpiration

400
These are the 3 main types of clouds.
What are cumulus, cirrus, & stratus.
400

These winds affect weather in the US and can be deflected by the jet stream

What are the prevailing westerlies

500

Weather occurs here

What is the troposphere

500
These are the 5 common types of precipitaiton.
What are rain, freezing rain, sleet, hail, and snow.
500

When water vapor loses energy and comes together on a dust particle to form clouds

What is condensation?

500
These are the layered clouds that cover much of the sky.
What are stratus clouds.
500

These move over great distances

What are global winds