Water Cycle
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Clouds
Fronts and Storms
100
What occurs when water vapor cools and hardens?
What is condensation
100
Before a rain droplet falls it must become _____ times it's original size?
What is 100
100
Clouds that are fluffy are called what?
What is cumulus clouds
100
What kind of front is formed when a warm air mass meets a cold air mass?
What is a stationary front
200
What occurs when rain, hail, sleet, or snow falls from the clouds onto earth?
What is precipition
200
What type of clouds form layers?
What is stratus clouds
200
What type of clouds form layers?
What is stratus clouds
200
What is an electric discharge that occurs between a positively charged area and a negatively charged area?
What is lightning
300
What occurs when liquid water changes into water vapor?
What is evaporation
300
Hurricanes are called __________ in the western Pacific.
What is typhoons.
300
What type of clouds are thin, feathery, white clouds at high altitudes?
What is cirrus clouds
300
Thunderstorms usually form along what type of front?
What is a cold front
400
What is water that flows across land and collects in other bodies of water?
What is runoff
400
Climate is what?
What is long term
400
What it a stratus cloud that forms near the ground?
What is fog
400
What is the largest type of storm?
What is hurricane
500
What are all of the steps in the water cycle?
What is condensation, evaporation, runoff, and precipitation.
500
Weather is what?
What is short term
500
What is the most common type of precipitation?
What is rain
500
What scale are earthquakes graded on?
What is a richtor scale
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