Show:
The Atmosphere
Precipitation
Storms
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
These are 2 kinds of weather fronts and their symbols.
What are cold (pointy) and warm (curved)
100

Clouds that are thin and wispy and look like horse tails are called

What cirrus clouds?

100

This is the term that describes water that falls from clouds to the earth's surface.

What is precipitation?

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
When the sun heats and evaporates large amounts of ocean water it can form this type of storm.
What is a hurricane.
200

Clouds that look like fluffy cotton balls.

What are Cumulus clouds?

200
Weather happens in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere.
300

The ozone is located in which layer of the atmosphere.

What is the stratosphere?

300

What is formed when warm air rises, cools, and sinks back to the earth's surface where it is heated once more.

What is convection currents?

300
This is the symbol for a warm front
What is curved
300
These clouds form at or near the ground.
What is fog
300

The long term or typical pattern of weather in a particular area.

What is climate?

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

Name 3 factors that play a part in determining the weather.

What is temperature, wind speed, air pressure, humidity, amount of clouds, and the amount of precipitation?

400
When air masses come together in the center of the US they form these dangerous storms.
What are tornadoes
400

These are the 3 main types of clouds.

What are cumulus, cirrus, & stratus. (nimbus)

400

Lines on a weather map that show atmospheric pressure.

What are isobars?

500

Meteors usually burn up in this layer of the atmosphere.

What is the Mesosphere?

500

These are the 4 common types of precipitaton.

What are rain, freezing rain or sleet, hail, and snow?

500
Thunderhead clouds are classified as these in science.
What cumulonimbus clouds.
500
These are the layered clouds that cover much of the sky.
What are stratus clouds.
500

A blanket of gases that surround the earth.

What is the atmosphere?