This layer is the top layer and radiation from the sun heats this layer up so it is the hottest layer.
What is the Thermosphere?
100
This is the layer where airplanes fly.
What is the stratosphere?
100
This is an instrument that can measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
100
This is a term that describes all the water of Earth's surface.
What is hydrosphere?
100
These are clouds formed at cold, high altitudes, look wispy and feathery, and often form in fair weather.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
This is the layer where all of our weather happens.
What is the Troposphere?
200
In this layer, the temperature decreases as the altitude increases.
What is the troposphere and the mesosphere?
200
These can help predict weather patterns by indicating high or low pressure systems, movement of air masses and fronts, or temperature ranges.
What are weather maps?
200
This is when water droplets in a cloud fall to the Earth.
What is precipitation?
200
These clouds are puffy with flat bottoms, form at medium or low altitudes, and the white clouds form in fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
300
This is the coldest layer.
What is the Mesosphere?
300
These are the two most common gases in the atmosphere.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
300
These take images of cloud patterns and movements.
What are satellites?
300
This is when liquid water from a lake, river, ocean, or the Earth's surface is heated by the sun and becomes water vapor.
What is evaporation?
300
These clouds form at medium and low altitudes, are shaped in flat spread out layers, cover a large area of the sky, and forms as air cools without rising.
What are stratus clouds?
400
This is a thin layer of gases and some liquids that surrounds the Earth.
What is atmosphere?
400
This is the force of air molecules on an object.
What is air pressure?
400
These can detect cloud cover and rainfall, storm location, intensity, and movement.
What are radars?
400
This is when water vapor turns back into liquid water on the surface of a solid.
What is condensation?
400
This means rain when added to a cloud type.
What is nimbus?
500
This layer contains the ozone.
What is the stratosphere?
500
This slows the movement of heat energy away from the Earth.
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
These people are scientist who study data, predict the weather by studying past and current weather patterns and conditions, and report their findings.
Who is a meteorologist?
500
When water flows on the Earth's surface into streams and rivers because the surface cannot absorb the water.
What is surface runoff?
500
This cloud forms when condensation occurs at or near the ground.