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Clouds
Layers of the Atmosphere
Gases in the Atmosphere
Precipitation
Wind Patterns
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clouds that often bring rain
What are stratus clouds?
100
layer with electrically charged particles
What is the ionosphere?
100
layer of gases that surrounds the earth
What is the atmosphere?
100
to change from a gas to a liquid
What is condense?
100
strong, reliable wind belts
What are trade winds?
200
puffy white, fair weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
clear, dry atmosphere layer
What is the stratosphere?
200
to change from a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation?
200
the sun's unequal heating of the earth's surface
What is the cause of wind?
300
wispy streaks high in the sky
What are cirrus clouds?
300
layer with most tightly packed air particles
What is the troposphere?
300
the gases of the atmosphere that move in cycles as living things use them
What are oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen?
300
When the droplets of water that are suspended by air currents gets to heavy, they fall to earth
How does precipitation form?
300
winds occurring between 30 N and 60 N latitudes and between 30 S and 60 S latitudes that blow from west to east
What are prevailing westerlies?
400
air is forced upward and cools
Why do clouds form over mountains?
400
The layer that the ozone layer is in the lower half of
What is the stratosphere?
400
layer of gases that surround the earth
What is the atmosphere?
400
when rain falls through a layer of cold air and freezes into ice particles
What is hail?
400
strong reliable tropical winds that blow from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere
What are trade winds?
500
hailstones form in these
What are tall cumulus clouds?
500
a layer that absorbs harmful radiation
What is the ozone layer?
500
nitrogen and oxygen
What are two main gases in the atmosphere?
500
when water turns to ice crystals and begin to fall, and the air temperature below the cloud is below freezing
What is snow?
500
winds in belts near the North and South poles that move from east to west and bring cold, stormy weather.
What are polar easterlies?