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Atmosphere
Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Meteorology
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Layer of atmosphere closest to Earth.
What is Troposphere?
100
Water moving from Earth into the atmosphere and back to Earth in a repeating pattern
What is the Water Cycle?
100
Low thick clouds; fog
What is Stratus Clouds?
100
Type of violent weather.
What is Hurricane or Tornado?
100
Moving air.
What is wind?
200
Layer of atmosphere farthest from the Earth; satellites orbit here.
What is Exosphere?
200
The repeating patter of water moving from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere.
What is the Water Cycle.
200
very high, very thin, feathery clouds.
What is Cirrus Clouds?
200
A storm that has a calm area near the center called an EYE.
What is a hurricane?
200
A meteorologist's prediction of future weather.
What is a forecast?
300
Layer of atmosphere that jets often fly near or above; ozone gas is in the upper layer.
What is Stratosphere?
300
When water enters the air as water vapor.
What is Evaporation?
300
puffy and white; fair-weather clouds
What is Cumulus Clouds?
300
Tools used to estimate wind direction.
What is windsocks and flags.
300
The weight of the air in our atmosphere pressing down on the Earth's surface.
What is Air Pressure?
400
Layer above the Stratosphere; meteors burn up here.
What is Mesosphere?
400
When water vapor in the air forms clouds.
What is Condensation?
400
Scale used the describe tornado strength.
What is Enhanced Fujita Scale?
400
A type of violent weather that begins when a cumulonimbus cloud begins to spin rapidly into a funnel-shaped cloud.
What is Tornado?
400
How fast the air is moving.
What is wind speed?
500
layer above the mesosphere; reflects radio waves back to Earth.
What is Thermosphere?
500
Word that describes rain, snow, hail and sleet?
What is precipitation?
500
The amount of moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
500
The gases that make up the Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen, Oxygen, Other Gases