Atmosphere
the first layer of the atmosphere
What is the Troposphere?
The weather tool that measures the speed of the wind
What is a Anemometer?
the transition zone where a warm air mass is replacing a cold air mass
What is a warm front?
clouds which have flat bases and are often described as "puffy", "cotton-like" or "fluffy" in appearance
What is a cumulus cloud?
describes how water evaporates from the surface of the earth, rises into the atmosphere, cools and condenses into rain or snow in clouds, and falls again to the surface as precipitation.
What is the Water Cycle?
The Second layer of the atmosphere
What is the Stratosphere?
The Device that shows the Direction of the wind
What is a wind Vane?
the transition zone where a cold air mass is replacing a warmer air mass
What is a cold front?
a genus of atmospheric cloud generally characterized by thin, wispy strands
What is a cirrus cloud?
the process where plants absorb water through the roots and then give off water vapor through pores in their leaves
What is transpiration?
The third layer of the Atmosphere
What is the Mesosphere?
The instrument for measuring and indicating temperature
What is a Thermometer?
when a cold front overtakes a warm front
What is a occluded front?
a dense, towering vertical cloud, forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents. These clouds are capable of producing lightning and other dangerous severe weather, such as tornadoes and hailstones
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
the process of a substance in a liquid state changing to a gaseous state due to an increase in temperature and or pressure.
What is evaporation?
The fourth layer of the atmosphere and the hottest layer of the atmosphere
What is the Thermosphere?
An instrument that can be whirled in the air and can reach a constant value
What is a Sling Psychrometer?
a weather frontal transition zone between two air masses, where neither air mass is strong enough to advance into the other at least 5 knots at the ground surface
What is a stationary front?
low-level clouds characterized by horizontal layering with a uniform base, as opposed to convective or cumuliform clouds that are formed by rising thermals
What is a stratus cloud?
the process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water. In other words, the water in the air, a gas known as water vapor, from your hot shower cooled when it met the surface of the cold mirror
What is condensation?
The final layer of the atmosphere
What is the exosphere?
The instrument used for measuring atmospheric pressure
What is a Barometer?
a boundary separating two masses of air of different densities
What is a front?
a cloud that produces precipitation. Usually the precipitation reaches the ground as rain, hail, snow, or sleet.can be characterized by their great height.
What is a nimbus cloud?
the process by which a solid forms, where the atoms or molecules are highly organized into a structure known as a crystal. Some of the ways by which crystals form are precipitating from a solution, freezing, or more rarely deposition directly from a gas
What is crystallization?