These are puffy clouds with flat bottoms. When they are white, they signal fair weather, and when they are darker, they may signal rain or thunderstorms.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
This layer is where the ozone layer is located.
What is the stratosphere?
100
After condensation occurs (forming clouds), water droplets fall in various forms of this.
What is precipitation?
100
This type of energy is energy from the sun.
What is solar or radiant energy?
100
This is formed when a wire in an electric circuit is wrapped around an iron core.
What is an electromagnet?
200
This prefix may be used to indicate medium-level clouds.
What is alto-?
200
This layer is where all weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
200
Plants release water vapor by this.
What is transpiration?
200
This type of energy can be released, for example in batteries or sugar/food, when these particles react to form new substances.
What is chemical energy?
200
This produces an electric current when a coil of wire wrapped around an iron core is rotated near a magnet. It converts mechanical energy to electrical energy.
What is a generator?
300
These are wispy clouds that are formed at high elevations, usually consisting of ice crystals.
What is cirrus?
300
These are the two most common gases found throughout all of the layers.
What are nitrogen and oxygen.
300
This is defined as precipitation that falls on land surfaces that attempts to move back towards sea level as surface-water or groundwater-flow.
What is run-off?
300
This is energy that is flowing in an electric circuit.
What is electrical energy.
300
This changes electrical energy to mechanical energy.
What is an electric motor.
400
These are clouds formed at medium or low elevation and spread out layer upon layer, covering a large area.
What is stratus?
400
Although the air is thin in this layer, it is very hot.
What is the thermosphere?
400
This forms when water vapor condenses directly onto a surface.
What is dew?
400
This type of energy is energy due to the motion and position of an object.
What is mechanical energy?
400
These are known as poor conductors of heat.
What are insulators?
500
This type of cloud is often part of thunderstorm conditions that may accompany a cold front.
What is cumulonimbus?
500
These gases are important for weather conditions and found in the troposphere.
What are water vapor and carbon dioxide?
500
This forms when water vapor changes from gas directly to ice crystals on a surface when the temperature at which condensing would take place is at the freezing point or below.
What is frost?
500
What do the letters in MRS. CHEN represent?
What is mechanical, radiant, sound, chemical, heat, electrical, and nuclear.
500
This is a type of heat transfer by movement of the heated substance itself as currents in fluids or liquids and gases.