Cloud Types
Layers of the Atmosphere
Atmospheric Composition
Weather
Atmospheric Pressure, Density, and Warming
100
Fluffy Clouds that look like cotton balls in the sky.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
The lowest atmospheric layer
What is the Troposphere?
100
A layer of gasses that surrounds the earth and supports life on Earth by protecting it from dangerous electromagnetic radiation.
What is the Atmosphere
100
Virtually all weather occurs here
What is the Troposphere?
100
An instrument used to measure atmospheric density
What is a barometer?
400
Clouds that extend through all the levels and usually bring storms.
What are nimbus clouds?
400
The Ozone layer (gas that absorbs solar radiation) is located here.
What is the Mesosphere?
400
Removed from the atmosphere by bacteria and lightning
What is Nitrogen?
400
This is caused by unequal heating of the earth's surface.
What is wind
400
Atmospheric pressure -------- with increase in altitude.
What is decreases?
600
Cloud that cover the sky like a blanket
What are Stratus clouds?
600
The hottest layer of the atmosphere
What is the thermosphere?
600
These two gasses make up 99% of the Atmosphere.
What are Nitrogen(78%) and Oxygen(21%)?
600
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
600
How the Earth deals with Solar radiation
What is Atmospheric Warming?
800
This cloud is unique in that it forms waves in the sky.
What are Kelvin Helmholtz clouds?
800
The coldest atmospheric layer
What is the Mesosphere?
800
Released into the atmosphere by plants as they photosynthesize
What is Oxygen?
800
The temperature at which water begins to accumulate on surfaces
What is the Dew Point?
800
At greater altitudes, the same volume of air contains fewer--------.
What are molecules of gases?
1000
The only type of cloud made of ice crystals
What are Cirrus clouds?
1000
You can find GPS satellites orbiting in this layer.
What is the Exosphere?
1000
The trace gases found in the atmosphere
What are Neon, Methane, Krypton, and Hydrogen?
1000
What is the Sea Breeze vs the Land Breeze?
1000
What happens to almost half of solar radiation
What is being absorbed by earth's surface?