Atmosphere Layers
Ears pop in this atmospheric layer.
What is the stratosphere ?
The Earth's rotation makes the wind curve.
What is the Coriolis effect?
The symbol for a cold front is a blue curved line with these shapes on it
What is are triangles?
I am found to circulate air at 30 N and S of the equator.
What is the Hadley Cell?
The severity of a hurricane is ranked uses these on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
What are categories?
We live in this atmospheric layer.
What is the troposphere?
This symbol is shown on a weather map and represents 0% cloud cover -
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What is clear weather?
A curved red line with semi-circles on it is the symbol this type of weather.
What is a warm front?
This air moves very fast around the planet.
What is a jet stream?
I am a big storm that gets my energy from warm ocean waters in the Atlantic.
What is a hurricane?
This atmospheric layer is the boundary between outer space and Earth itself.
What is the exosphere?
This drawing shows the barometric pressure, sky cover, temperature, dew point, etc
What is a station model?
mT
What is maritime tropical?
Use this to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This gas represents ~80% of the earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
We can hear this with the help of the AM frequency radio. A flash in the sky.
What is lightning?
The lines of 1045.5 mb and 1003.6 mb fluctuates over Washington, Montana, and Nebraska.
What are isobars?
cP
What is a continental polar air mass?
I am a system responsible for moving air clockwise and allow for blue skies
What is a high pressure system?
The gas layer that has the ability to trap heat in the atmosphere and protect against sun's UV rays.
What is the ozone layer?
Liquid H20 falls from the sky.
What is precipitation?
What is rain?
unit of air pressure
What is a millibar?
A pair of air masses, neither of which is strong enough to replace the other form this boundary.
What is stationary front?
This person uses tools to predict the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
This gas we breathe out and is mostly responsible for greenhouse gases.
What is carbon dioxide?