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Atmospheric Layers
Instruments of weather
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100
This layer is flown over by planes to avoid weather altogether.
What is the troposphere?
100
Used to measure the amount of heat in a baby bear's porridge.
What is a thermometer?
100
This process causes the hot air from jet planes to cool and form 'contrails' which are white puffy clouds in the air.
What is condensation?
100
The gaseous form of water in the Atmosphere.
What is water vapor?
100
the circulation of water in, on and around the earth.
What is water cycle?
200
the middle layer, it starts at the tropopause and ends at the mesopause.
What is mesosphere?
200
Used to tell if it is going to rain or not. this instrument can help you construct cirlces on a weather map.
What is a barometer?
200
The name given to a typhoon in the northern part of the world, such as the USA. It tells you that the barometric pressure is very,very low. .
What is hurricane?
200
A comparison, in percentages of the amount of water in air compared to how much it can really hold.
What is Relative Humidity?
200
NYC road feature that is caused by the freezing and thawing of water in the winter.
What is a pothole?
300
The gas that is most useful at the beach. It can add years to your life and keep you from receiving chemotherapy.
What is ozone?
300
Unit that scientists must use to record how hot a substance is. It is not used by most people when they read the weather report or test for a fever.
What is Kelvin?
300
The relative humidity when the air temperature is 10 degrees Celsius and the wet bulb is 4.
What is _______?
300
Knowing that the air is 24 degrees Celsius on a clear day the wet bulb reading can be found by finding this other value on the ESRT chart.
What is the difference between the wet and dry bulb?
300
iso- means this.
What is same?
400
The height of the lowest level of the atmosphere in km. Also called the tropopause.
What is 12km?
400
Used by athletes to tell if they can get a heat stroke. especially in areas near to large bodies of water such as the Gulf of Mexico.
What is a sling psychrometer?
400
The air is filled with liquid water that is at ground level.
What is fog?
400
The change from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
400
Isolines that connect places of similar amounts of heat energy
What are isotherms? (they connect places of the same temperature which is a measure of the amount of heat energy in a place.)
500
The outermost gaseous shield of the earth that extends to deep space, it starts at this altitude also know as the mesopause.
What is thermosphere?
500
units that measure the amount of ir pressure that irene had at JFK airport.
What is millibars and inches?
500
A huge tidal wave that is not caused by the wind or rain in the atmosphere but which can wash away beaches, and coastlines.
What is Tsunami?
500
The temperature at which water must leave fall out of the atmosphere because the air is absolutely full.
What is dewpoint?
500
Derek Jeter uses one of these to show off his skill. you can also find them full of strawberries, cherries etc!
What is a field?