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Layers of the Atmosphere
Weather Instruments
Water Cycle
Air Masses
Clouds
100
stratosphere
What is the thin, dry second layer?
100
thermometer
What is used to measure temperature?
100
liquid water changing to a gas
What is evaporation?
100
tropical
What is an air mass formed from warm climates?
100
white puffy clouds
What is cumulus?
200
exosphere
What is outermost layer of the atmosphere?
200
barometer
What is used to measure air pressure?
200
release of water by plants
What is transpiration?
200
continental
What is an air mass formed over land?
200
thin feathery clouds made of ice crystals
What is cirrus?
300
mesosphere
What is the coldest layer of the atmosphere where meteroids burn up?
300
wind vane
What is used to measure wind direction?
300
water vapor changing to a liquid
What is condensation?
300
warm air rises causing preciptation
What is a warm front?
300
storm cloud
What is nimbus?
400
thermosphere
What is the hot layer where the International Space Station orbits?
400
sling psychrometer
What is used to measure humidity?
400
rain, snow, sleet and hail
What are forms of precipitation?
400
polar
What is an air mass formed over cold regions?
400
cloud in contact with the ground
What is fog?
500
troposphere
What is layer closest to Earth where weather occurs?
500
anemometer
What is used to measure wind speed?
500
produces radiant energy that reaches Earth
What is the Sun?
500
maritime
What is an air mass formed over the ocean?
500
sheets of clouds that cover the sky
What is stratus?