Precipitation
These clouds mean precipitation are coming
What are stratus and cumulonimbus
This is water that forms in clouds and falls to Earth
What is precipitation?
This storm has blowing wind and snow
What is a blizzard?
Thin, wispy clouds, also called mane's tail
What are cirrus clouds?
Weather is different depending on where you live
True
Name one liquid and one solid precipitation
Solid: Snow, Hail
Liquid: Rain
Moving air
What is wind?
These types of storms form over oceans
What are hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones
What is STRATUS?
It cannot if there are no clouds in the sky.
True: Clouds and precipitation need moist air
This is how clouds form
Clouds form when tiny droplets of water or ice that join together and float in the sky
The amount of moisture in the air
What is
humidity?
This is how a tornado forms
When warm and cool air collide, they can create unstable air that forms a spinning cloud
Clouds are made of this
What are tiny droplets of water?
Climate types help people understand what the weather is usually like in a certain area
True: Climate is weather in a location over many years
Name all four types of precipitation
What are rain, snow, sleet, and hail
Describe the difference between climate and weather
Weather is short time, and climate takes patterns of years to create
These two types of severe weather can be dangerous
Flood, Hurricane, Blizzard, Tornado
Describe two types of clouds
What are: cirrus (high, thin, wispy, mane's tail)
cumulus (puffy, mid-level, cotton candy)
stratus (low-level, grey, can mean rain, heavy)
cumulonimbus (stretches from low to high, means precipitation or thunder)
Weather forecasts are told by geologists.
False: Meteorologists
Snow is made from this
What are solid ice crystals?
Name at least 5 factors that determine weather
What are temperature, air pressure, cloudiness, wind, humidity, and precipitation?
Name all types of severe weather, and describe one
What are flood, blizzard, hurricane, tornado
Name all of the types of clouds from low to high
What are Stratus, Cumulus, Cirrus, and Cumulonimbus stretches from low to high
Weather does not affect our lives.
False: Weather does affect our lives: clothing, habitat, activities