Clouds
Vocabulary
Weather
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100

The type of cloud that is flat on the bottom and puffy on top. 

cumulus

100

When so much water has condensed that the air can't hold it anymore so it falls to the ground.

Precipitation

100

If the air water travels through on its way to Earth is below freezing, what type of precipitation is formed?

sleet

100

What type of weather forms from high pressure fronts moving into the low pressure forming a spinning storm?

hurricane

100

Hurricanes happen during hurricane season between which months?

June to November

200

The type of cloud that appears long and whispy and signals a warm front. 

Cirrus

200

The usual weather in a place.

Climate

200

If the air inside the cloud and the air water travels through is below freezing point, what kind of precipitation is it?

snow

200

What type of weather forms from cold air mixing with moist air coming off the coast?

blizzards

200

Blizzards are most likely to affect places off of which coast?

Arctic
300

The type of cloud that can form at different heights in the atmosphere. 

cumulus

300

When water has been heated up and turned to vapor into the air. 

Evaporation

300

If wind is catching the frozen falling droplets and pushing them back into the clouds forming ice pellets, what type of precipitation is it?

hail

300

What type of weather forms with moisture, unstable air, and rising air masses?

thunderstorms

300
The process by which water moves through the atmosphere. 

water cycle

400

The type of cloud that signals moist, cold air. 

stratus

400

When water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into water in clouds.

Condensation

400

What is the driving force of the water cycle?

the sun

400

Places closer to the equator have _____ climates.

hot
500

The type of cloud that appears thick and gray and are low in the sky. 

Stratus

500

When precipitation falls and is collected back into oceans, lakes, and rivers. 

collection

500

What type of weather forms from a cool, dry air mass meeting a warm, moist air mass?

tornado

500

Tornadoes often happen in Tornado Alley, which state is not in tornado alley? 

Texas, Illinois, Nebraska, or Kansas

Illinois

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