Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Air Masses
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100
Clouds where hail is formed
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Storms often brought with a cold front
What is a thunderstorm?
100
describe proper conditions for the formation of hail
cold front pushing up a warm air mass with high winds constantly pushing up on ice crystals till they are to large to be yo-yoed and fall
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
A micro-scale storm of spinning clouds with a funnel shape.
What is a tornado?
200
cold air is ______ pressure
What is low
300
DAILY DOUBLE!! Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Instrument that measures atmospheric pressure
What is a barometer?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
a wind moving at a heading of 180 degree on the compass is coming out of the __________ .
What is north?
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What are stratus clouds?
400
A boundary between 2 air masses.
What is a front?
400
Latin for Middle.
What is a Alto?
400
At what temperatures do cloud forms.
What is a 0c 32F?
500
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
500
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Two characteristics that determine an air mass are ______ and ________.
What is temperature and moisture? (amount of water vapor is acceptable answer)
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