These cloud-types have cotton-ball puffy shapes and begin to form when water droplets condense at middle altitudes!!!
What is Cumulus Clouds
100
You hear on a weather report that a cold front is coming. What weather changes can you expect?
I can expect that the temperature will go down, and the air pressure will drop too.
100
These people are scientists who study and measure weather conditions.
What are Meteorologists.
200
The _______________ is the thin layer of air that surrounds Earth.
What is Atmosphere!
200
Where are air masses formed over?
What is both land and water.
200
If you see these gray-white, dark clouds coming toward you, you better run or you might get wet!
What are Cumulonimbus Clouds!
200
The amount of water vapor in the air is called the ?
Humidity
200
What provides energy for making weather?
What is the SUN!!
300
In the atmosphere, the layer that contains a lot of ozone is the ?
What is the Stratosphere.
300
What is the effect called that traps heat from the sun and stops it from going back into space.
What is The Greenhouse Effect.
300
I can be seen at high altitudes, oh yeah I am made up of ice crystals...winds help stretch me into a long wispy horsetail or feather shapes!
I am a Cirrus Cloud ... oh yeah!
300
An instrument that measures air pressure is a ?
BAROMETER
300
Why do mountain climbers use oxygen tanks?
They use oxygen tanks because as you go up in the atmosphere there is less oxygen, or thinner oxygen levels.
400
What are the 4 types of air in our atmosphere?
What are oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and water vapor.
400
What can happen when a front stops moving?
The constant fall of snow or rain along a stationary front can leave behind many inches of snow or cause a flood.
400
Where do all clouds form?
They all form alond a front (where two air masses meet).
400
A ______ front forms when two air masses meet and don't move.
a. cold
b. warm
c. stationary
d. pressure
What is a Stationary Front. You know guys like when it rains or snows for days at a time...this can happen for days at a time. Did anyone say "Snowday?"
400
As you get higher in the atmosphere, the space between air particles...
a. decreases
b. doesn't change
c. increases
d. masses
What is
C. increases.
500
Name the four layers of Earth's atmosphere, then tell some information about each one.
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, and the Thermosphere.
500
Why are weather forecasts sometimes incorrect?
There are many factors that can change weather over time like air pressure, cold/warm fronts, wind changes, they can never be 100% because the weather is in constant change.
500
How do weather scientists classify clouds?
They classify them by shape, color, and where it forms in the atmosphere.
500
What is the instrument called that measures the wind speed?
What is the Anemometer!!
500
This instrument is used by weather scientists to measure moisture in the air.