Weather
Atmosphere
Types of Weather
Wind
Clouds
100
An instrument that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
100
The thin layer of gases and dust particles that surround and protect the earth is called?
What is atmosphere?
100
Ice that falls during warm weather
What is hail?
100
Water vapor in the atmosphere is called?
What is humidity?
100
Cloud A
What is cirrus?
200
An instrument used to show the direction the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane?
200
What is the weight of the air called?
Air pressure
200
What forms from condensed water vapor or ice crystals?
What are clouds?
200
a large body of air that has about the same temperature and moisture is called?
What is an air mass?
200
Cloud B
What is stratus?
300
Where do hurricanes form?
Over water
300
A measurement of the distance above sea level.
What is altitude?
300
What forms when liquid raindrops fall through air that is below freezing?
What is sleet?
300
Winds that are influenced by temperature changes in a small area are called?
What are local winds?
300
Cloud C
What is cumulus?
400
What is a snowstorm with strong, freezing winds?
What is a blizzard?
400
The condition of the atmosphere at any moment in time.
What is weather?
400
What forms when water droplets in the clouds join together to form larger drops before falling to the earth?
What is rain?
400
The boundary where two unlike air masses meet is called?
What is a front?
400
When you add "nimbus" to the end of a name of a cloud, what does it mean?
That the cloud will produce precipitation.
500
When does hail usually fall?
What is during warm weather.
500
The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is troposphere?
500
What forms when ice crystals in the clouds join together and fall to the earth?
What is snow?
500
Winds that move in large circular belts around the earth are called?
What is global winds?
500
What is the difference between a "weather watch" and a "weather warning"?
Weather watch - the condition are right for a type of severe weather, but it is not actually happening right now. Weather warning - the storm has begun and people have reported seeing it.
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