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Scientists record patterns in weather conditions across time and place to make predictions about what kind of weather might occur next. The name for the predictions is __________.
What is a forecast?
100
I represent this on a weather map.
What is a cold front?
100
It is a layer of gases that surrounds the Earth that supports life.
What is the atmosphere?
100
When water droplets in the air become too heavy they fall as a result of gravity in the form of _________.
What is precipitation?
200
__________ describes the range of an area’s typical weather conditions and the extent to which those conditions vary over long periods of time.
What is climate?
200
This type of pressure brings fair weather.
What is high pressure?
200
The gas which makes up about 3/4 of the air that surrounds earth.
What is Nitrogen?
200
________ is the source of the heat energy that drives the water cycle
What is the sun?
300
I am a prediction about the weather.
What is a forecast?
300
Amount of precipitation is measured in a/an ______.
What is a rain gauge?
300
I represent this on a weather map.
What is a warm front?
300
This gas makes up about 21% of the air that surrounds earth.
What is oxygen?
300
________ clouds are puffy with flat bottoms and signal fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
400
These types of images can be used to observe cloud cover and track the motion of weather systems, such as fronts and hurricanes.
What are satellite images?
400
Air temperature is measured using a/an ________.
What is a thermometer?
400
The part of a weather map that defines the symbols.
What is the key?
400
Water in the form of a gas is located in the layer of air that is closest to earth. The name for water in the form of gas is ____________.
What is water vapor?
400
________ clouds are spread over a large area and are layered. As these clouds thicken long periods of precipitation can occur over the area where the clouds are located.
What are stratus clouds?
500
A scientists who studies the weather
What is a meteorologists?
500
Temperature can be measured in two different degrees, ______________and/or _______________.
What is Fahrenheit or Celsius?
500
According to the weather map, ______ is experiencing the coldest weather.
What is Denver?
500
The layer of the atmosphere that is closest to the Earth’s surface.
What is the troposphere?
500
The four main processes in the water cycle
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff?