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Clouds
Atmosphere
Storms
Climate
Vocabulary
100
The type of cloud that are also called "thunderheads."
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
100
The main gases in the atmosphere
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
100
Fronts that move quickly and contain a mass of cold air.
What are cold fronts
100
Can affect climate by changing carbon dioxide in the air
What are pollutants
100
Pattern of weather in an area
What is climate
200
Clouds at high altitudes are made of these.
What are ice crystals?
200
The layer of the atmosphere what contains the ozone
What is the stratosphere?
200
A front that causes steady rain or drizzle
What is a warm front
200
Can cause earth to cool and climate to change due to extreme amounts of ash blocking sunlight
What are volcanoes
200
Large body of air that has similar temperature and humidity
What is an air mass
300
Clouds found in the middle level begin with this prefix.
What is alto?
300
As you reach higher altitude, air pressure does this.
What is decreases
300
The type of water that causes hurricanes to lose energy
What is cold water
300
The two characteristics that describe climate
What are average temperature and average precipitation
300
The boundary between air masses
What is a front?
400
Clouds that are thin and feathery and form high in the atmosphere
What are cirrus clouds?
400
The layer that has thunderstorms
What is the troposphere?
400
Measure air pressure
What is a barometer
400
Areas of earth that recieve less sun radiation and reflect the amounts of sunlight they do receive
What are polar regions
400
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity
500
The type of cloud that will produce a layer of fog or a light drizzle.
What are stratus clouds?
500
The layers of the atmosphere in order from highest altitude to lowest.
What are thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, troposphere
500
Uses radio waves to measure wind speed and precipitation and gives the direction of a storm
What is a Doppler Radar
500
Living near these can cause climate change
What are bodies of water
500
The amount of water vapor the air actually contains compared to what it could contain
What is relative humidity