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16 Cards in this Set
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Coalescence
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water droplets colliding and becoming bigger water droplets
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Sleet
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ice pellets formed before hitting the ground
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Snow
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forms as an ice crystal up high, stays a crystal all the way down
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How much Nitrogen in the air?
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70%
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How many layers of the atmosphere?
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5
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Cirrus
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wispy
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Stratus
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sheet like and layered
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Cumulus
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puffy, lumpy, fabulous
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Which is the thunderhead?
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Cumulonimbus
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What are the three scales of measurement?
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Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin
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What is the order of the layers of the atmosphere?
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Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
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how is hail formed?
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convection currents in clouds carry the ball of ice up through the cloud so that it can make another layer
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What is the temperature/altitude relationship for the troposphere?
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Higher altitude, lower temperature.
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What is the temperature/altitude relationship for the stratosphere?
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Higher altitude, higher temperature
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What is the temperature/altitude relationship for the Mesosphere?
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Higher altitude, lower temperature
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What is the temperature/altitude relationship for the Thermosphere?
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Higher altitude, higher temperature
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