Clouds
Water Cycle
Fronts
Weather Forecasting
Severe Weather
100
Clouds that look like flat blankets and are usually the lowest in the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
100
Any type of solid or liquid water that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground.
What is precipitation?
100
This occurs when a warm air mass moves over a slower cool air mass.
What is a warm front?
100
Scientists who study the atmosphere and the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100
A funnel-shaped cloud of swirling winds that reach down to the ground.
What is a tornado?
200
Thin, curly-looking clouds that are high in the sky.
What are cirrus clouds?
200

When water from lakes, rivers, or oceans turns into vapor and rises into the air, it is called this.

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
This often occurs when a large, warm air mass quickly rises above a cold air mass.
What is a thunderstorm?
300
Large fluffy-looking with flat bottoms.
What are cumulus clouds?
300

After precipitation, water can flow over land into rivers, lakes, or oceans. This is called…

What is runoff?

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
A storm with spiraling winds that form over the ocean.
What is a hurricane.
400

When clouds get heavy and water falls to the ground, this happens..

What is precipitation?

400

Plants release water vapor into the air through their leaves. This is called…

What is transpiration?

400

When a cold front passes, the temperature usually does this.What is goes down.

When a cold front passes, the temperature usually does this.

400
Instrument used to measure the speed of wind.
What is an anemometer?
400
Issued by the National Weather Service, it means that the conditions are right for a type of severe weather.
What is a weather watch?
500

How do clouds form?

They condense by the way of condensation.

500
Ice crystals in the clouds that join together and fall to the earth form this.
What is snow?
500
The boundary where two unlike air masses meet.
What is a front?
500

Major part of what drives our weather and provides a huge source of Energy for our planet. 

What is the sun.
500
Issued by the National Weather Service, this indicates that severe weather is happening.
What is a weather warning?
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