Types of Clouds
Precipitation
Low, Middle, and High
Temperature, Pressure, Direction and Speed
Layers of the Atmosphere
100
This cloud is the cloud that produces thunderstorms
What is Cumulonimous
100
Water droplets falling from the sky
What is Rain
100
These clouds are low and cause rain
What is Stratus
100
Fahrenheit, Celsius, or Kelvin are examples of this.
What is Temperature?
100
This layer is where we live our entire lives (with very few exceptions)
What is the troposphere
200
These clouds are a sign of good weather
What is Cumulus
200
This is already crystalized in the clouds they fall from
What is Snow
200
These are the lowest clouds and bring rain
What is Fog
200
Air pressure is measured with this.
What is a barometer?
200
This toxic gas reflects the sun's energy and sits at the top of the stratosphere
What is ozone (O3)
300
These clouds are a sign of fair weather or changing weather.
What is Cirrus?
300
This type of precipitation is water when it leaves the cloud but frozen when it hits the ground
What is Sleet
300
These clouds are the highest in the sky
What is Cirrus
300
This is what windspeed and direction
25 knots (from) the west
300
The boundary between the troposphere and stratosphere
What is the tropopause
400
This cloud covers a large area and you see nothing but grey covering the sky.
What is Stratus
400
These ice pellets occur during thunderstorms
What is Hail
400
These clouds are in the middle of the atmosphere and are puffy, lumpy looking
What is Cumulus
400
When you are IN a warm front, you experience this wind
What is variable wind?
400
This layer of the atmosphere gets warmer as you increase in altitude
What is the stratosphere or thermosphere
500
This is the lowest clouds in the world
What is Fog
500
These are rain when they leave and hit the ground but freeze to and form....
What is Freezing Rain
500
These clouds are mid-level clouds with precipitation that can indicate thunderstorms
What is Cumulonimbus
500
"Variable" wind is defined as
What is wind changing by 60o or more per two-minute period
500
This layer of the atmosphere is where the aurora borealis occurs
What is thermosphere