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Layer's of Air
Air Masses
Severe Weather
Weather Forecasts
Climate
100
Exosphere
What is the top layer of the Earth's atmosphere?
100
air mass
What is a large body of air with similar properties?
100
positive and negative electric charges
What is the charges in different areas of a thunderstorm cloud?
100
temperature, moisture, clouds, precipitation, wind speed, air pressure, wind direction
What are the parts of the weather system?
100
weather
What is made up of all the conditions in one place at a single moment?
200
troposphere
What is the bottom layer of the Earth's atmosphere?
200
temperature and amount of water vapor
What are the most important properties of an air mass?
200
air currents move up, are mixed, and move downward
What are the ways thunderstorms form?
200
baromete
What is weather tool that shows air pressure?
200
climate
What is the average of weather conditions over a long time?
300
Temperature and air pressure
What is changing as you go up through the five layers of the Earth's atmosphere?
300
Continental polar and tropical air and Maritime tropical and polar air
What are the kinds of air masses?
300
layers of wind
What is blowing at different speeds and different directions?
300
anemometer
What is a weather tool that measures wind speed?
300
ocean currents
What can make a climate warmer or cooler?
400
air pressure
What is decreasing as you go up through the atmosphere
400
winds
What is causing the air mass to move?
400
tornado
What is a spinning column of air that touches the ground?
400
rain gauge
What is a weather tool that measures how much rain has fallen?
400
volcanic eruptions and meteorite impacts
What is the ways the climate has been cooled?
500
thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere
What is decreasing as you go up through the atmosphere?
500
front
What is a boundary between two air masses?
500
hurricane
What gets their energy from warm ocean water?
500
weather forecasts
What observes many patterns of weather change?
500
carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor
What is the ways the climate has been warmed?