Relating to Rainfall
The process of water falling from the clouds.
What is percipitation?
The lowest layer in the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
Low layer clouds
What are stratus clouds?
Two kinds of frozen precipitation
What are snow and sleet.
The categories of measuring rain.
What is amount, frequency and tendency?
The Troposphere is ______ at the surface and _________at its highest point.
What is the warmest and coldest?
Detached individual clouds in fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
The measurement of hot and cold.
What is temperature?
A solid form of precipitation that is in clumps.
What is hail?
Clumps of air that stick together.
What is rise?
Multi-layer thunderclouds.
What are cumulonimbus clouds.
This process happens when liquid water gets warmer.
What is evaporation?
Precipitation that reaches the ground as solid water.
When water vapor in an air parcel interacts with cool air it condenses and forms a cloud.
What is how a cloud forms?
Energy does this when an air parcel rises.
What is energy transfers from the warm air to the cold surrounding air until the temperature is equal?
Dark grey clouds that produce rain and block the sun.
What are nimbostratus clouds?
The state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place.
What is the weather?
Tool to measure rainfall amount.
What is a rain gauge?
When an air parcel loses energy and cools.
What is rainfall?
What is more rainfall?
Wispy clouds at the very top.
What are cirrus clouds?
Water's gas form.
What is water vapor?
What is a drizzle?