Water Cycle
Clouds
Atmosphere
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Air Masses and Fronts
Safety and
Trivia
100
Continuous movement of Earth's water from the ocean to the atmopshere, to the land and back to the ocean.
What is the water cycle?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
The layer in which airplanes fly
What is the stratosphere?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100
What type of air exists in a polar continental air mass
What is cold and dry?
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
The layer that is the coldest where meteors and meteorites vaporize creating "shooting stars"
What is the mesosphere?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200
What will happen to warm air that is surrounded by cold air
What will rise?
300
Surface water that seeps underground
What is groundwater?
300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300
The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs
What is the troposphere?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
The boundary betwenn two air masses with different temperatures
What is a front?
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400
The hottest layer of the atmosphere due to receiving the greatest amount of thermal energy
What is the thermosphere?
400
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400
Describe the type of air a tropical maritime air mass has
What is warm and wet?
500
Any form of water vapor that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground
What is precipiation?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
Found in the stratosphere that helps block harmful UV rays from the sun
What is ozone?
500
Give two conditions needed for a snowstorm be considered a blizzard
What are large amounts of snow or blowing snow, stong winds lasting at least 3 hr, and low visibility for a long time?
500
Which front moces the fastest
What is cold ?
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