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Puffy clouds that usually mean fair weather.
What are Cumulus clouds?
100
The layer closest to Earth where weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
100
An instrument used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
Air particles pressing down on a surface.
What is air pressure?
100
The state of atmospheric conditions at a particular time.
What is weather?
200
Low, layered clouds that mean stormy weather.
What are Stratus clouds?
200
Layer of the atmosphere just above most weather.
What is the stratosphere?
200
An instrument used to measure the amount of rain that has fallen.
What is a rain gauge?
200
Large body of air that has moisture content and temperature similar to the water or land over which it formed.
What is an air mass?
200
A measure of how hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
300
High, thin, feathery clouds that often mean good weather.
What are Cirrus clouds?
300
Air that surrounds our planet.
What is the atmosphere?
300
An instrument that is used to measure relative humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
300
The scientific study of weather.
What is meteorology?
300
A measure of the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.
What is humidity?
400
When naming clouds, how you indicate rain.
What is add Nimbus?
400
The coldest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere?
400
An instrument that is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
Moisture that falls from the sky in the form of a liquid or a solid.
What is precipitation?
400
The horizontal movement of air over the earth's surface.
What is wind?
500
High, thin, bumpy clouds
What are cirrocumulus clouds?
500
Describes how heat from the sun is trapped in the atmosphere to warm Earth.
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
An instrument that is used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
Air that is forced upward by cooler air and exerts low pressure.
What is warm air?
500
A prediction of what weather conditions will be over a period of time.
What is a weather forecast?