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Clouds
Water Cycle
Fronts
Weather Forecasting
Weather Patterns
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Step in the water cycle that forms clouds?

What are condensation?

100
Any type of solid or liquid water that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground.
What is precipitation?
100

Boundary between 2 air masses. 

What is a front?

100
Scientists who study the atmosphere and the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100

When pacific ocean is warmer than normal bringing wetter and warmer conditions to NC. 

What is a El Nino?

200
Thin, curly-looking clouds that are high in the sky.
What are cirrus clouds?
200

When water gains energy and turns into water vapor

What is evaporation?

200
This occurs when air masses push against each other but do not move.
What is a stationary front?
200
An instrument that shows the direction wind is blowing from.
What is a wind vane?
200

What is most responsible for the day to to weather changes in our area.

What is a Prevailing Westerlies?

300
Large fluffy-looking with flat bottoms.
What are cumulus clouds?
300

When water vapor loses energy and turns back into droplets.

What is condensation?

300
This forms when a cool air mass pushes itself under a weather warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
300
Instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300

Causes land temperatures along the coast to be milder in the winter

What is a Gulf Stream.

400

Clouds that look like flat blankets and are usually the lowest in the sky.

What is stratus?

400

When water gains energy and leaves through a plant?

What is transpiration?

400
A body of air that has about the same temperature and moisture is called this.
What is an air mass?
400
Instrument used to measure the speed of wind.
What is an anemometer?
400

Could affect weather conditions by making it warmer or cooler than normal.

What is a Jet Stream?

500

Clouds that produce rain and thunder.

What is cumulonimbus?

500
What point of the day would evaporation be the strongest?

What is middle of the day/afternoon when the sun is out?

500

On a June day, a warm, moist air mass slowly passes over a colder air mass in North Carolina. What will most likely happen next?

Warm front - rain and then warmer temperatures?

500
The condition of the atmosphere at any moment in time.
What is weather?
500

The unusual cooling of water in the Pacific Ocean

La Nina?