Atmosphere
What occurs in the troposphere and nowhere?
Weather
What is precipitation?
Rain, snow, sleet, hail etc. Any form of water falling out of the sky.
What is the name of the cloud known as the rain cloud?
Nimbostratus
What phenomena that occurs due to the tilt and rotation of the Earth called?
The Coriolis Effect
What sub layer that protects us from UV rays is in the stratosphere?
The Ozone Layer
What is the dewpoint?
The temperature water vapor reaches to where it can condense and form a cloud
What low layer cloud has a cottonball like appearance and does not bring much precipitation?
Cumulus Clouds
The Earth rotates counter clockwise or clockwise in the northern hemisphere
counterclockwise
What giant wind current that shifts from season to season, pilots heavily rely on and change the weather?
The Jet Stream
Low pressure areas tend to?
Have areas of high precipitation and humid
What type of clouds will you find in the high level?
Cirrus, Cirrostratus and Cirrocumulus
The Earth rotates clockwise or counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere
clockwise
This hottest layer of the atmosphere
Thermosphere
Areas with High pressure areas tend to be
Dry, arid etc.
What cloud that forms in the low level but is present in all three brings thunder, lightning and other stormy weather; Also is normally present in warmer weather.
Cumulonimbus clouds/ Thunderhead
The Coriolis Effect deflect objects in what direction in the northern hemisphere?
Right
Thi sublayer lies between the mesosphere and thermosphere that is composed of ionized electrons and allows radio waves to transmit.
Ionosphere
A cold front is represented on a weather map with what colored shape?
Blue triangles
What cloud normally precedes on coming nimbostratus clouds.
Altostratus
The Coriolis Effect deflects wind in what direction in the Southern Hemisphere?
To the left