Clouds and Layers
These make up clouds
What is water vapor and dust particles?
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 measure the speed of wind
What is a anemometer?
The severity of a hurricane is ranked uses these on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
What are numbers?
This layer is where meteors burn up.
What is the mesosphere?
Warm air rises over the land, moves to the ocean/sea, then back to the land again.
What is an ocean/sea breeze?
This is one reason why schools in West Virginia often have more snow days than those in the Shenadoah Valley of Virginia.
What is the mountains?
Use this to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The most common gas in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
These clouds form and make big thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
During a hurricane, this produces most of the damage and can cause people to drown.
What is a storm surge or flooding?
A pair of air masses, neither of which is strong enough to replace the other.
What is stationary front?
This person uses tools to predict the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
This is the trait a gas has that contributes to the green house effect.
What is trapping heat??
We live in this atmospheric layer.
What is the troposphere?
This can help or hinder planes at high altitude, depending on the direction of travel.
What is the jet stream?
A curved red line with semi-circles on it is the symbol this type of weather.
What is a warm front?
if you have a fever or to measure the temperature of the air, use me.
What is a thermometer?
I am a big storm that gets my energy from warm ocean waters.
What is a hurricane?
Not typically seen in the Shenandoah Valley, this type of cloud is formed via volcanic gases and water vapor.
What is vog?
Differences in temperature and elevation make this happen for local winds.
What are mountain and valley breezes?
A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height.
What is an air mass?
Curious about how much rain fell in a certain period of time? Use me to measure it
What is a rain gauge?
The gas that has the ability to trap heat in the atmosphere.
What is ozone?