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Severe Weather
Air Quality
Types of Clouds and How They Form
Layers of the Atmosphere
Air Masses and Fronts
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A funnel shaped cloud of high whirling winds.
What is a tornado.
100
Enters the air directly either by human actions or naturally.
What is a primary pollutant.
100
This cloud resembles a blanket in the sky.
What is a stratus cloud.
100
The lowest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere.
100
The area were 2 air masses meet.
What is a front.
200
A storm classified by its wind speed.
What is a hurricane
200
This type of oxide comes from cars, factories/industries.
What is nitric oxide.
200
This type of cloud usually forms at or above 18,000 feet.
What is a cirrus cloud.
200
The coldest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere.
200
A large body of air with similar moisture and temperature throughout.
What is an air mass.
300
This storm is an average of 15 miles in diameter.
What is a thunderstorm.
300
This forms when hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides react with the sun.
What is the ozone.
300
This cloud is thin/transparent, high in the sky, is made of ice crystals and is spread out throughout the whole sky.
What is a cirrostratus cloud.
300
Auroras borealas can form in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere/ionosphere.
300
This forms when 1 warm air mass is caught between 2 cold air masses.
What is an occluded front.
400
This type of severe weather causes an average of 200 deaths a year.
What is a thunderstorm.
400
This forms when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides react with water.
What is acid rain.
400
A MIDDLE level cloud that is transparent, can produce some precipitation and cover a lot of the sky.
What is a altostratus cloud.
400
In this layer of the atmosphere meteors frequently show up.
What is the mesosphere.
400
This type of air mass brings cool and dry air to the U.S. and usually comes from Canada or in that area.
What is a continental polar air mass.
500
This type of severe weather was the so called storm of the 20th century and was know for its massive size and powerful wind speeds.
What is a blizzard.
500
This organic chemical's high vapor pressure results from a low boiling point, which causes large numbers of molecules to evaporate or sublimate from the liquid or solid form of the compound and enter the surrounding air.
What is volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
500
This specific type of cloud can vary in height from near a stratus level of cloud to around 60,000 feet in the sky.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud.
500
In these 2 layers of the atmosphere the temperature INCREASES with altitude.
What is stratosphere and the thermosphere.
500
An area in the atmosphere that has lower pressure than the surrounding areas and has winds that spiral towards the center.
What is a cyclone