Clouds
Clouds are made of _____________.
What is water and ice?
Rain, sleet, hail, and snow are examples of:
What is precipitation?
The long-term weather pattern of a specific area
What is climate?
A cold front is the leading edge of ____________air
What is cold air?
Benjamin Banneker was famous for being the first African American to write this
What is the Farmer's Almanac?
Clouds occur at these 3 levels
What is low level, mid level, and high level?
The warmer the air, the higher the air:
What is temperature?
Weather is tracked for this amount of time before deciding the climate of that region
What is 30 years?
Meteorologists send ______________ into the atmosphere to measure the current weather
What is a weather balloon?
Benjamin Banneker created this when he was a young adult and it took him 2 years to build
What is a clock?
Thick, low sheet-like clouds that cover the sky and are a sign of rainy weather.
What are stratus clouds?
The Biosphere consists of:
What is plants, animals, and humans?
An example of a Humid Subtropical climate (name a real place)
What is:
-Atlanta, Georgia
-Florida
-Louisiana
-Shanghai, China
-Sydney, Australia
What is severe weather?
Benjamin Banneker enjoyed these 2 hobbies
What is surveying and astronomy?
The layer of the atmosphere clouds are found in
What is the Troposphere?
The hydrosphere is:
What is all of Earth's water?
A climate system is made up of these 5 parts
What is the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the land surface, and the biosphere?
The type of weather found with a high pressure system
What is fair weather?
Benjamin Banneker sent a copy of his almanac to this person when he finished
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The latin term for high level clouds
What is "cirro"?
The cryosphere is made of:
What is ice and glaciers?
The most widely used climate classification model was created by
Who is Wladimir Köppen?
When two air masses with different temperatures meet
What is weather change?
A British Pharmacist was the first man to give cloud types their names
Who is Luke Howard?