Water Cycle
This powers the water cycle.
What is sunlight?
Clouds that produce precipitation are called this.
What are nimbus?
A severe weather _______ means a storm could develop.
What is a watch?
Front where violent storms can form.
What is a cold front?
Dust particles in the atmosphere.
What are aerosols?
Water from Earth turning into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
Fog is this type of cloud low to the ground.
What is stratus?
How heat is transferred through the atmosphere.
What is convection?
Factors of weather.
The atmospheric layer closest to Earth.
What is troposphere?
The constant motion of Earth's water.
What is the water cycle?
What are clouds?
These form over particular regions of Earth.
What are air masses?
Air exerts pressure because it has this.
What is weight?
The atmospheric layer that absorbs UV rays in the stratosphere.
What is the ozone layer?
Water vapor enters the atmosphere through this.
What is evaporation?
Puffy white clouds forming at about 2,000 meters or less.
Saturation and condensation of water occurs at this.
What is the dew point?
Hail stones form in these clouds.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Layer in which AM radio waves are reflected.
What is the ionosphere?
Rain, hail, sleet and snow are forms of this.
What is precipitation?
Clouds are grouped according to their _______.
What is height?
Measures the amount of water actually in the air compared to what could be there.
What is relative humidity?
The given conditions of the atmosphere at a given time.
What is weather?
As altitude decreases, air pressure does this.
What is increases?