weather vocabulary. the layer of air that surrounds our planet
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Weather Vocabulary
![Page 2: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
The layer of air that surrounds our
planet
![Page 3: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
atmosphere
![Page 4: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Particles of air pressing down on the Earth’s surface
![Page 5: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
air pressure
![Page 6: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
The layer of the Earth’s atmosphere that is closest to
the Earth
![Page 7: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
troposphere
![Page 8: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
The layer of the Earth’s atmosphere
that contains the ozone
![Page 9: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
stratosphere
![Page 10: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
The warming of the Earth caused by the
atmosphere trapping thermal energy from the
SunSun
![Page 11: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Greenhouse effect
![Page 12: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
A huge body of airhuge body of air that has similar
temperature and moisture
![Page 13: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Air mass
![Page 14: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
The border where two air masses
meet
![Page 15: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Front
![Page 16: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Wispy, high-altitude clouds that are made up of ice
crystals
*fair weather
![Page 17: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
cirrus
![Page 18: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Puffy cotton-ballPuffy cotton-ball clouds that form
when water droplets condense at middle
altitudes
![Page 19: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
cumulus
![Page 20: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Towering dark rainTowering dark rain clouds with a
nimbus, or halo, of gray-white
*thunderstorms, rain
![Page 21: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
cumulonimbus
![Page 22: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Dark gray cloudsDark gray clouds that form a low layer
and sometimes brings light rain or
snow showers*blanket
![Page 23: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
stratus
![Page 24: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Instrument that measures air
pressure
![Page 25: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
barometer
![Page 26: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
The amount of water vapor in the
air
![Page 27: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Humidity
![Page 28: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
An instrument that measures moisture
in the air
![Page 29: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
hygrometer
![Page 30: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
An instrument that is used to measure
wind speed.
![Page 31: Weather Vocabulary. The layer of air that surrounds our planet](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062517/56649f325503460f94c4e899/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
anemometer