AS200-C3L1 - VQ

A cone-shaped tube made of fabric that is used to indicate wind speed and direction.

• Windsock

• Barometer

• Anemometer

• Thermometer

A blanket of air that is made up of gases and surrounds the Earth.

• Ceiling

• Atmosphere

• Atmospheric pressure

• Atmospheric circulation

The lowest level of the atmosphere and extends to approximately 7 miles above the Earth's surface.

• Mesosphere

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere

• Thermosphere

Traps moisture and weather into the troposphere.

• Exosphere

• Tropopause

• Jet Streams

• Stratosphere

The layer of the atmosphere that extends from the tropopause to approximately 30 miles above the surface of the Earth.

• Mesosphere

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere

• Thermosphere

The layer of the atmosphere that extends from the stratopause to approximately 53 miles above the surface of the Earth.

• Exosphere

• Mesosphere

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere

The layer of the atmosphere that extends from the mesopause to approximately 435 miles above the surface of the Earth.

• Mesosphere

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere

• Thermosphere

Narrow bands of strong wind that blow across the globe at the top of the troposphere.

• Tropopause

• Jet Streams

• Precipitation

• Coriolis effect

The highest layer of the atmosphere, and it extends from the thermopause to approximately 500 to 6,200 miles above the surface of Earth.

• Exosphere

• Mesosphere

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere

The pressure exerted by the atmosphere on the Earth's surface.

• Ceiling

• Coriolis effect

• Atmospheric pressure

• Atmospheric circulation