Global Winds and Currents
Clouds
Water Cycle
Weather Forecasting
Miscellaneous
100
The winds that cause the weather in the United States to move west to east.
What are prevailing westerlies?
100
Thin, wispy clouds that signal a change in weather.
What are cirrus clouds?
100
The part of the water cycle when water changes from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
100
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
100
The reason we have seasons on Earth.
What is the angle of the sun and the tilt of the Earth on the axis?
200
Pressure moves from _____________ to ______________ causing wind.
What is high pressure to low pressure?
200
The puffy, cotton ball looking clouds that appear on a fair weather day.
What are cumulus clouds?
200
The part of the water cycle when water flows over land to larger bodies of water.
What is runoff?
200
This occurs when two air masses meet.
What is a weather front?
200
The tool used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
The warm ocean current that flows past the eastern United States.
What is the Gulf Stream?
300
The TALL dark towering clouds that are associated with thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds.
300
The part of the water cycle when water evaporates from plants and turns into water vapor.
What is transpiration?
300
You can expect this when there is low pressure.
What is rain or bad weather?
300
The season in the southern hemisphere when it is winter in the northern hemisphere.
What is summer?
400
The direction weather moves across the United States.
What is west to east?
400
The clouds that cover the sky like a blanket and often bring days of clouds/rain.
What are stratus clouds.
400
The part of the water cycle where water falls to the ground as rain, snow, sleet or hail.
What is precipitation?
400
You can expect this when there is high pressure.
What is good, cool weather?
400
The weather tool used to measure wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
500
These can make the climate warmer even in places far from the equator.
What are ocean currents?
500
The instrument that allows us to see clouds.
What is a satellite?
500
The driving source behind the water cycle.
What is the sun?
500
The people that study weather.
What are meteorologists?
500
The invisible line that circles the center of the Earth.
What is the equator?
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