Clouds
The Water Cycle
Layers of the Atmosphere
Reading a Weather Map
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This type of cloud is puffy like a cotton ball and can produce a lot of stormy weather.
What is cumulus
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The three steps of the water cycle.
What is Precipitation, Condensation, and Evaporation.
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This is the layer that we live in and where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
100
This is represented with a big blue H.
What is high pressure?
100
The name of the instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
This cloud will form as a flat layer of clouds that spread out and look like a grey blanket in the sky.
What is status
200
This must be present in order for the steps of the water cycle to happen.
What is the sun?
200
This layer is the biggest layer of all.
What is the exosphere?
200
A cold front symbol can look similar to this.
What is icicles?
200
Another name for prevailing winds.
What is trade winds?
300
These clouds are thin wisps.
What is cirrus
300
Water is being absorbed and turning from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
300
What are two things that occur in the Ionosphere?
What is the northern lights and falling stars?
300
Thunderstorms are often produced at this type of front.
What is cold front?
300
This is the best way to remember how to spell the layers of the atmosphere.
What is OSPHERE?
400
This type of cloud is actually formed from ice crystals not droplets of water
What is cirrus
400
snow, sleet, hail, rain are examples of this.
What is precipitation?
400
This layer is filled with extreme amounts of wind.
What is the mesosphere.
400
Warm air does this, while cold air
What is rises and sinks?
400
The difference between weather and climate.
What is weather- daily changes climate-average weather over time?
500
This cloud forms very low in the atmosphere.
What is statrus
500
Water is turning from a gas back to a liquid.
What is condensation?
500
This layer contains the ozone layer.
What is the Stratosphere
500
The temperature would be warmer after this type of front passed through.
What is warm front?
500
The two ways that wind is measured and the instrument that measures it.
What is speed and direction; anemometer?