Which cloud is wispy, feathery and made out of ice crystals that form at high levels above or about 6 kilometers.
What is Cirrus Cloud?
100
A rapidly whirling funnel shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface usually leaving a destructive path.
What is a tornado?
100
Where warm and cool air meet, water vapor in the warm air condenses into rain, snow, fog, or clouds. If it remains stalled over an area, it may bring many days of clouds and precipitation.
What is a Stationary Front?
200
The lower part of the thermosphere.
What is the Ionosphere?
200
A weather tool that measures wind speed.
What is anemometer?
200
A cloud that makes rain and other storms.
What is a Nimbus Cloud?
200
A tropical storm that has winds of 119 kilometers per hour or higher; typically about 600 kilometers across.
What is a hurricane?
200
A moving warm air mass collides with a slowly cold air moving air mass and creates a type of front.
What is a warmer front?
300
The outer layer of the thermosphere extending outward toward space.
What is the exosphere?
300
A weather tool that measures humidity.
What is hygrometer?
300
Clouds that form less than 2 kilometers above the ground and look like fluffy, rounded piles of cotton.
What is a Cumulus Cloud?
300
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere.
What is a Storm?
300
When rapidly moving cold air mass runs into a slowly moving warm air mass, the denser cold air slides under the lighter warm air. The warm air is pushed upward. It creates a type of front.
What is a cold front?
400
The middle layer of the Earths atmosphere; the layer where most meteoroids burn up.
What is the mesophere?
400
A weather tool that measures relative humidity consisting of a wet bulb, thermometer and a dry bulb thermometer.
What is a phsycrometer?
400
Clouds that form in flat layers.
What is a Stratus Cloud?
400
A storm that forms within large cumulonimbus clouds, or thunderheads.
What is a thunderstorm?
400
A huge body of air that has similar temperature, pressure, and humidity throughout.
What is Air Mass?
500
The second lowest layer of the atmosphere; ozone layer is located in the middle of it.
What is the stratosphere?
500
A weather tool that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
500
A visible body of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes ranging up to several miles above sea level.
What is a cloud.
500
A sudden spark , or engergy discharge, as these charges jump between parts of a cloud, between nearby clouds or the cloud and the ground.