Clouds
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The clouds that form in layers.
What is Stratus?
Name four main types of clouds.
What are Cirrus, Cumulus, Stratus, and Nimbus?
Three ways clouds can be classified according to their "altitude."
What is cirrus, cumulus, and stratus?
Number of layers in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is five?
Water in the form of gas.
What is water vapor?
This mid-level cloud is, fluffy, dense, and mostly composed of water.
What is Cumulus?
The amount of main clouds.
What is four?
Three boundaries in the Earth's Atmosphere.
What are Tropopause, Stratopause, and Mesopause?
The two gases mostly make up the Earth's atmosphere.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
____________ is a layer of gases that surrounds the Earth protecting it like a big blanket of heating.
What is atmosphere?
Name of a rare wave cloud.
What is the Kelvin-Helmholtz Cloud?
This cloud is high-level, wispy, curly, and composed of ice crystals.
What is Cirrus?
________ is the coldest layer of the atmosphere.
What is Mesosphere?
The layer in which ozone absorbs sunlight.
What is stratosphere?
Second layer of the atmosphere; includes the ozone layer.
What is Stratosphere?
Airplanes and jets usually fly in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Stratosphere?
A cloud that extendeds through all levels, rain, storm.
What is Nimbus?
When water vapor cools and condenses, water vapor particles go together and turn into tiny droplets of water forming this.
What is a cloud?
The layer where weather forms.
What is the troposphere?
Outermost layer of the atmosphere; includes most of the ionosphere.
What is Thermosphere?
This type of cloud is an indicator of good weather.
What is a cirrus cloud?
A cloud that is low, flat layer like a blanket and composed of water.
What is a Stratus cloud?
_______ is a stratus cloud near the ground.
What is fog?
Name the different layers of the Earth's atmosphere.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?
Two gases that make up the least of the Earth's Atmosphere.
Carbon Dioxide 0.03%
Trace Gases 0.17%