form blanket like layers and covers all of the sky
stratus
what comes first in the water cycle
Evaporation
condition on Earth's atmosphere at a particular time or place
weather
what's the first layer of the atmosphere
Troposphere
low, fluffy, and gray
straocumulus
water that runs along the land and end up in a stream ar river
runoff
the measure of the amount of thermal energy in the atmosphere
Temperature
what is the atmosphere
a layer of gasses surounding the earth
thin, wispy, and most commen type of cloud
cirrus
vaperising water
evaporation
when any form of water falls onto Earth
Precipitation
what are the four most comen gasses in dry air
nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide
stratus clouds that produs rain
nimbostatus
water evaporating off plants
transpiration
drops of fresh water that falls from the clouds
rain
what two tools measure air pressure
mercury barometer and aneroid baromater