Water Cycle
What kind of cloud is flat, white, and layered?
Stratus Cloud
What is the weather?
Atmospheric condition that is short-term
When snow falls through a layer of warm air before falling to the ground.
What is sleet?
What is climate?
Long term average weather condition
Wispy clouds are called
Cirrus clouds
When the temperature is HIGH, the molecules move _________.
Faster
Precipitation that occurs when the air from the cloud all the way to the ground is below 0 degrees Celsius.
Snow
Line that measures how close to the equator you are.
Latitude
Air pressure is lower/higher when altitude is higher or when temperature is low/high. (choose one of each choice)
lower, low
What is hail?
Blocks of ice showering down like rain.
What is a rainshadow?
Area of low rainfall on the downward slope of a mountain
Cloud that is formed by aircrafts is
Contrails cloud
Air moves from areas of _______ pressure to areas of _____ pressure.
high, low
What is precipitation?
When water falls from the sky in the form of sleet, snow, hail, and rain
The higher the altitude, the _______ the temperature, the ______ the air pressure.
lower, lower
Cloud that forms nearest to Earth's surface
Fog
What is humidity?
The amount of water vapor in the air
What are "fronts"?
Bodies of hot or cold air
Why is the sand on the beach hotter than the ocean water? Explain.
Because it has low specific heat.