Clouds
These clouds form patchy layers at a mid-level.
What are altocumulus?
Located in the stratosphere and helps block harmful ultraviolet light.
What is the ozone layer?
The layer of atmosphere with extremely high winds.
What is the mesosphere?
Two air masses that stop moving when they meet.
What is a stationary front?
Clouds that bring thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus?
Small white puffs at the very highest layer.
What are cirrocumulus?
The layer of atmosphere that transitions from earth's atmosphere to space.
What is the exosphere?
Winds that may change direction as conditions change through the day.
What are local winds?
When cold air overtakes a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
The cycle where warm air rises and cold air sinks causing a circular pattern
What is convection patterns?
Thin high wispy clouds made of ice crystals
What are cirrus?
A layer of atoms that reflect communication waves back to Earth.
What is the ionosphere?
Close to the North and South poles blowing from east to west.
What are Polar Easterlies?
When warm air overtakes a cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
When a warm air mass becomes trapped between two cold air masses.
What is an occluded front?
Low layers of gray sheet like clouds that bring light to heavy rain.
What are stratus?
The two layers the contain all the atmosphere surrounding earth.
What are the homosphere and the heterosphere?
Located in the middle latitudes blowing from west to east.
What are prevailing westerlies?
A huge body of air in the troposphere with similar temperatures and humidity throughout.
What is an air mass?
An area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a certain point.
What is a watershed?
Flat layers of gray, mid-level clouds.
What are altostratus?
Mostly composed of nitrogen and oxygen, the gases that surround our planet.
What is atmosphere?
Created by the spin of the Earth and the differences in temperature between the equator and polar areas
What are global winds?
When two different air masses meet and form a boundary.
What is a front?
Air that rises and condenses.
What are clouds?