Clouds
Weather
Temperature & Air Pressure
The Earth
Predicting Weather
100
These clouds are fluffy with flat bottoms.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
This is what the general weather pattern for normal weather for a particular place is called.
What is climate?
100
How close an ocean is to a place affects is __________.
What is temperature?
100
The earth spins on this, causing day and night.
What is its axis?
100
These clouds can tell us that a storm is close.
What are stratus clouds?
200
These clouds are flat and layered.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
Weather changes with these.
What are the seasons?
200
It takes more ___________ to raise the temperature of water than the temperature of land.
What is heat?
200
The earth revolves around this.
What is the sun?
200
This is what we call a stratus cloud at ground level.
What is Fog?
300
These clouds are thin and feather-like.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Different places have different _______________ called climate.
What are weather patterns?
300
Air always moves from areas of _________________ to areas of lower pressure.
What is higher pressure?
300
It takes this long for the Earth to go around the sun.
What is one year?
300
These clouds generally mean that we will be having fair weather, but if they are very tall with dark bottoms, they may bring thunderstorms.
What are cumulus clouds?
400
These clouds are often tall and piled high like stacked cotton puffs.
What are cumulus clouds?
400
Mountains affect the amount of ______________ that an area receives.
What is precipitation?
400
We use this instrument to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
This releases more heat than land does when it cools down.
What is water?
400
Meteorologists make weather predictions based on these two things.
What are observations and measurements?
500
These clouds sit high in the sky and are made up of ice crystals?
What are cirrus clouds?
500
Cumulus clouds usually mean that there will be what kind of weather?
What is fair weather (or nice weather)
500
If the barometer shows that the air pressure is falling we know this.
What is know that a storm is on the way?
500
The closer you live to this on earth, the warmer your climate will be.
What is the equator?
500
Meteorologists measure these two things to determine an area's climate.
What are temperature and precipitation?
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