Clouds
Winds
Insolation
Misc.
Hink Pinks
100
Name and describe the 3 main types of clouds. (#2, 9, 20)
What are cumulus-puffy/fluffy, stratus-blanketlike, cirrus-wispy/featherlike
100
Wind is air that moves in this direction.
What is horizontally?
100
This is why the North and South Poles stay cold all year around. (#11)
What is less concentrated sunlight?
100
These are the four types of precipitation. (#14)
What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
100
This is a place to get fuel named after incoming solar radiation. (#22)
What is insolation gas station?
200
These are the 5 terms used to describe cloud cover. (#24-28)
What is clear, overcast, scattered clouds, partly cloudy, and mostly cloudy?
200
Sea breezes blow from ________________ toward _____________. These are breezes that blow from land to the sea. (#17)
What are the sea, land and land breezes?
200
This part of Earth gets more concentrated sunlight causing it to be warmer. (#11)
What is the equator?
200
This precipitation... is water droplets falling through warm air is water droplets falling through freezing air is ice crystals falling to a ground with cold temperatures is droplets freezing, droplets collecting around it, and freezing again (#14)
What is rain, sleet, snow, and hail?
200
The News Gazette made of evaporated liquid. (#21)
What is water vapor newspaper?
300
This is what forms if moist air at ground level cools and forms a cloud. (#4)
What is fog?
300
Describe easterly winds and westerly winds. (#15)
What are winds that blow from the east to the west and winds that blow from the west to the east?
300
This is what insolation stands for. (#11)
What is incoming solar radiation?
300
This is why it feels so "sticky" in the summer. (#5, 6)
What is humidity? or the relative humidity?
300
This is a line on a map connecting places with equal air pressure and a vehicle that may bring you to school. (#22)
What is isobar car?
400
Fill in the blanks. When __________air rises and cools the water _________ condenses forming water _________. These water droplets form around dust and __________ forming clouds. (#13)
What is warm, vapor, droplets, smoke?
400
This is the pattern of rising and sinking air, and winds caused by unequal heating and coolilng of air and this is the term used to describe the curving of winds. (#10, 19)
What is convection cell and Coriolis effect?
400
True or False. In the Northern Hemisphere the sun is closer to Earth in winter.
What is true?
400
This is the layer of Earth's atmosphere that is closest to the Earth. This is 2 reasons it is said that "all life exists" here. (#3, 12)
What is the troposphere and people/animals/weather?
400
This mixture of rain and snow has ten toes. (#14)
What is sleet feet?
500
Clouds are grouped by families by height and form. They are low, middle, high and these clouds that form upward.
What are clouds of vertical development?
500
Fill in the blanks. The sun heats up an area and _________ air begins to rise. Warm air is less dense than __________ air. The air that rises is called an ___________. Cold air begins to _________. Air that sinks is called a ____________. This causes winds to blow. (#16)
What is warm, cold, updraft, sink, downdraft?
500
Match the angles of insolation with the correct results. (#11) greater angle colder temp. smaller angle warmer temp.
What is the greater the angle the warmer it is and the smaller the angle the colder it is.
500
As you go higher in the atmosphere, this happens to the air pressure. Think of the 5E totem pole with Asjah on the bottom and Wyatt on the top.
What is decreases?
500
This is what water vapor attaches to, eventually forming water droplets and a cloud, and what you may do if you smell it. (#13)
What is dust and smoke, choke?
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