1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Atmosphere Clouds & Forecasting Weather Vocabulary Storms & Climate Miscellaneous

2. Almost all weather occurs here

3. What is the troposphere?

4. Most meteorites burn up here

5. What is the mesosphere?

6. Temperatures in the atmosphere are hottest here

7. What is thermosphere?

8. The outermost layer; Satellites orbit here

9. What is the exosphere?

10. Daily Double: Ozone layer is found here

11. What is the stratosphere?

12. A type of system causing clear skies and fair weather.

13. What is high pressure?

14. Whispy clouds; fair- weather clouds

15. What are cirrus clouds?

16. Type of system that causes cloudy skies and usually precipitation.

17. What is low pressure?

18. Results from a change in pressure to low, particles in the air, and cooler air holding less water vapor.

19. What is cloud formation?

20. Tall, anvil shaped gray clouds; predict thunderstorms

21. What are cumulonimbus clouds?

22. The state of the atmosphere with respect to temperature, humidity, and storminess

23. What is weather?

24. The temperature at which moisture saturates the air.

25. What is dew point?

26. Amount of water vapor in the air

27. What is humidity?

28. Daily Double: Measures pressure

29. What is an barometer?

30. Allowed scientists to communicate their data to each other better.

31. What is Morse Code?

32. Caused by a build up of static charges in a cloud.

33. What is lightning?

34. A small region that has different weather conditions from the surrounding area

35. What is a microclimate?

36. Blocks the harmful UV rays from Earth

37. What is the ozone layer ?

38. The uneven heating of the earth’s surface causes this.

39. What is the wind?

40. Retain the heat in the atmosphere

41. What are greenhouse gases?

42. Displays the data in a form that is easily read and interpreted.

43. What is a graph?

44. Varies throughout the atmosphere layers (increases and decreases depending on the layer).

45. What is temperature?

46. Process by which lead and tin are used to make an electrical connection

47. What is soldering?

48. Pressure does this as altitude increases.

49. What is decreases?

50. The section of the electromagnetic spectrum used for the AnaSonde data transmission.

51. What are radio waves?