WATER CYCLE
WEATHER WORDS
FRONTS AND AIR MASSES
CLOUDS
STORMY WEATHER
100
It causes water to move through the water cycle
What is the sun?
100
This is the lowest layer of the air.
What is the atmosphere?
100
This forms over cold land areas
What is continental polar?
100
The prefix 'alto' means_______
What is high?
100
These form thunderheads.
What is cumulonimbus?
200
Water is changed to water vapor and taken into the air.
What is evaporation?
200
Average weather conditions over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
The type of weather associated with maritime tropical air masses
What is warm and wet?
200
The word nimbus in the name of a cloud means
What is rain?
200
This is nature's most violent storm.
What is a tornado?
300
Water that falls to Earth.
What is precipitation?
300
Layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth.
What is troposhere?
300
What kinds of weather do fronts often bring?
What is rainy and unsettled?
300
These are high heapy clouds.
What is altocumulus?
300
These storms form over tropical ocean regions.
What are hurricanes?
400
Water vapor cools and forms clouds.
What is condensation?
400
The climate of a very small area.
What is microclimate?
400
What type of weather do warm fronts bring?
What is light, steady rain or snow.
400
The weather that is associated with cirrus clouds.
What is fair weather?
400
Meterologists use these to track storms.
What is Doppler radar?
500
Water in rivers, lakes, streams, and oceans.
What is groundwater?
500
The distance from the equator
What is latitude?
500
Which air masses have dry air?
What is continental?
500
This is what clouds are formed of.
What is droplets of condensed water vapor?
500
Tornadoes form from this type of storm.
What are thunderstorms?
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