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Energy Transfer
Layers of the Atmosphere
Fronts
Weather Instruments
Clouds
100
The transfer of heat through a material by direct contact
What is Conduction
100
Where all weather occurs
What is the Troposphere
100
An area where warm, moist air replaces the colder, dryer air
What is a Warm Front
100
Measures air temperature
What is a Thermometer
100
High level clouds
What is Cirrus
200
When someone burns their hand on a pan
What is Conduction
200
The hottest layer
What is the Thermosphere
200
A front that has no movement
What is a Stationary Front
200
Measures the amount of rain that has fallen over a certain time span
What is a Rain Gauge
200
a thin sheetlike clouds made of ice crystals. You can see the sun or moon through them
What is Cirrostratus
300
How the elbow pasta cooks in water
What is Convection
300
The layer that extends into space
What is the Exosphere
300
A cold front overtaking a warm front causing storms
What is an Occluded front
300
Measures the water vapor content in the air
What is a Hygrometer
300
Puffy, white cloud
What is Cumulus
400
When the sun warms us
What is Radiation
400
Meteors burn up here
What is the Mesosphere
400
A blue line with triangle represent this front
What is a Cold Front
400
An Italian scientist named Torricelli built the first of its kind in 1643
What is a Barometer
400
a dark grey flat cloud
What is Nimbostratus
500
When standing beside a campfire makes you sweat
What is Radiation
500
Where most jets fly
What is the Stratosphere
500
An alternating red and blue line represents this front
What is a Stationary Front
500
The cups catch the wind, turning the dial attached to the instrument
What is an Anemometer
500
Vertically developed thunderstorm cloud
What is Cumulonimbus