The layer of the atmosphere where we live on the surface of the Earth.
What is the troposphere?
100
The pressure system that pulls air down in the middle and forces it to the outside of the system.
What is a high pressure system?
100
Fluffy, cartoon-like clouds.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
A person wanting to fly a kite needs one of these to check the wind speed?
What is an anemometer?
100
Earth is the only planet that water is found in these 3 forms.
What is liquid, gas, and solid.
200
The layer of the atmosphere where satellites are found.
What is the exosphere?
200
Air always moves from areas of __________________ to ________________ pressure.
What is high, low?
200
Wispy sheets of clouds that are found at middle elevations of the atmosphere.
What are altostratus clouds?
200
Atmospheric pressure on the Earth's surface is ___________ than at the top of the troposphere.
What is higher?
200
The amount of water in the air relative to amount that the air can hold.
What is relative humidity?
300
The layer of the atmosphere that protects us from meteorites.
What is the mesoshpere?
300
When these approach a warm front, they force the warm air to rise.
What is a cold front?
300
These are wispy, thin sheets of clouds made of ice crystals and found in high elevations of the atmosphere.
What are cirrostratus clouds?
300
This instrument measures precipitation AND wind velocity.
What is Doppler Radar?
300
Water 'stored' in the geosphere.
What is groundwater?
400
The layer of the atmosphere where the Ozone layer is located.
What is the stratosphere?
400
The air that flows over Arizona contains dry, warm air and is this kind of air mass.
What is a continental tropical?
400
These clouds can be anvil shaped and are also known as thunderheads.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
Mathematics are used in weather forecasting through this equation P = T V, called the ____________________.
What is the Ideal Gas Law
400
The process when water escapes from the leaves of a plant.
What is transpiration?
500
Gas particles in this layer of the atmosphere can reach up to 2500 degrees fahrenheit and particles are so electrically charges that they cause the aurora borealis.
What is the thermosphere?
500
You might get stuck on your sailboat in these, where two convection cells meet.
What are the doldrums?
500
Clouds that form above mountains and appear to not move.
What are lenticular clouds?
500
The top right number of a weather station model tells us this.
What is air pressure?
500
The stages of the water cycle in some sort of order.
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, percolation, evaporation.