When water falls back to the Earth to fill our ponds, streams, lakes, rivers, and oceans it's called ___.
What is rain?
100
High up in the blue sky, Leah saw wispy, feathery clouds. These clouds are sometimes made of ice crystals.
What is a cirrus cloud?
100
prefix for "high"
What is an alto?
100
fair:sunny:overcast: ____
What is cloudy?
100
Rain, sleet, hail, or snow
What is precipitation?
200
A change of a liquid (water) that occurrs from the surface (lakes and oceans) into a gaseous phase (vapor)
What is evaporation?
200
A rain cloud or storm cloud can also be called a ____ cloud.
What is a nimbus cloud?
200
I am a low cloud. I appear below 5,000 ft. Sometimes I'm called "high fogs".
What is a stratus cloud?
200
sky: clouds: ground: _____
What is fog?
200
There are three main factors that determine the weather.
What are air (wind), temperature (sun), and moisture (water)?
300
Condensed water + dust= ?
What is a cloud?
300
I am a black storm cloud, sometimes called a thunderhead. I am made up of piles of cumulus clouds. I may have a flat top. I am a ___.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
300
I am the highest cloud formation. I can cause a halo to appear around the sun or moon.
What is a cirrus cloud?
300
space:astronomy:weather: ___
What is meterology?
300
What two scales do we use to measure temperature using a thermometer?
What are Celsius and Fahrenheit?
400
When water vapor turns into droplets that are too heavy then ______ occurs.
What is precipitation?
400
As Paul walked to school, he looked at the blanket of gray clouds covering the sky. These were ____ clouds.
What are stratus clouds?
400
Airplanes can make a man-made cloud called ___.
What is a contrail cloud?
400
alert: warning: forecast: ____
What is a prediction?
400
The three most common tools used by meterologist and the purposes.
What is a thermometer (temperature), barometer (air pressure), and an anemometer (wind speed)?
500
I am the opposite of evaporation. I am the process that causes water vapor in the air to change from a gas back into liquid form to make tiny water droplets or ice crystals in the atmosphere.
What is condensation?
500
As John was riding his bike he noticed that the clouds were getting low and dark. He thought he had better get home before it started raining. He saw ___ clouds.
What is a nimbostratus cloud?
500
On a very cold day, our ____ condenses into droplets that can turn into tiny clouds.
What is breath?
500
gas to liquid: condensation: liquid to gas: ____
What is evaporation?
500
The tilt of the earth
What is the cause (reason) for the different seasons?