What is plants take in more carbon dioxide than they release?
100
Name the three types of clouds.
What is cirrus, stratus, and cumulus clouds?
100
Describe climate.
What is year after year condition of temperature, precipitation, winds and clouds in an area over a long period of time?
200
This is an abnormal event that occurs every two to seven years in the Pacific Ocean.
What is El Nino?
200
This is a cold front.
What is a fast moving cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass?
200
How do clouds form?
What is when warm vapor in the air condenses to form liquid water or ice crystals?
200
These clouds from in flat layers and ofter produce drizzle, rain, or snow.
What is stratus clouds?
200
This is the condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
300
This instrument measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
This is a front where a warm air mass overtakes a slow-moving cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
300
Describe the coriolis effect?
What is the way the Earth's rotation makes winds curve? Because of the Coriolis effect, global winds in the Northern Hemisphere gradually turn toward the right.
300
These clouds are fluffy, rounded piles of cotton and often produce fair weather.
What is cumulus clouds?
300
Describe the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, run-off, and ground water?
400
Describe a climate closer to the equator than others.
What is a tropical climate?
400
This is a stationary front.
What is where a cold and warm air masses meet but neither can move the other?
400
This is the process in which plants convert carbon dioxide to sugar.
What is photosynthesis?
400
Describe cirrus clouds.
What is wispy, feathery clouds that produce in low temperature?
400
This instrument has an open-ended can or tube that collects rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
500
Describe the three types of heat transfer.
What is radiation (direction transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves, convection (transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid), and conduction (direct transfer of heat from one substance to another that is touching)?
500
This is an occluded front.
What is where a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses?
500
This occurs when an unusual pattern of winds blow over the Western Pacific.
What is El Nino?
500
This is the process where scientists modify precipitation.
What is cloud seeding?
500
Name the most common types of precipitation.
What is rain, sleet, freezing rain, snow, and hail?