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Atmosphere
Clouds
Weather or Not
Forecasting
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100
The layer of the atmosphere where jet planes fly.
What is the stratosphere?
100
The type of cloud often seen during fair weather?
What are cirrus clouds?
100
A whirling mass of warm, moist air that brings stormy weather.
What is a low pressure system?
100
What is instrument used to measure the temperature of the outside air? what is a thermometer?
What is a thermometer?
100
Current of fast moving winds found in the stratosphere.
What is the jet stream?
200
The only layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
200
The type of cloud called"fair weather" clouds?
What is cumulus
200
This is a whirling mass of cool,dry air that brings good weather.
What is a high pressure system?
200
Measures the amount of precipitation falling
What is a rain gauge?
200
The condition of the outside air at a given place at a given time.
What is the weather?
300
The layer of the atmosphere that protects us from meteroids.
What is the mesosphere?
300
The type of cloud that spans clouds levels. Cumulonimbus clouds are an example.
What are vertical clouds?
300
The boundary where a low pressure and high pressure system meet
What is a front?
300
This instrument can be found on rooftops and indicates wind direction.
What is a weather vane?
300
The average weather of a particular area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
400
The small layer found in the stratosphere that protects us from the harmful ultraviolet light from the sun?
What is the ozone layer?
400
What are Middle Level clouds made up of?
What is water vapor and ice crystals?
400
A cold fron is represnted on a weather map with this symbol.
What is a blue H
400
This symbol represents a low pressure system on a weather map.
What is a red L?
400
These clouds that bring light rain or drizzles.
What is stratus clouds?
500
The layer of the atmosphere that is often divided into two layers - the ionosphere and the exosphere?the thermosphere
What is the thermosphere?
500
This type of cloud often brings extreme weather such as violent thunderstorms and tornadoes?
What is cumulonimbus?
500
this type of weather occurs when a high pressure system and a low pressure system meet
What is a storm?
500
This weather instrument measures wind speed.
What is an anomemeter?
500
bright displays of dancing lights occur in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?