The cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere and land involving precipitation, drainage, and return to the atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
100
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.
What is precipitation?
100
The process whereby a liquid turns to vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
These long-neck birds have a reputation for not flying before a storm because they have a harder time getting airborne in low pressure.
What are geese?
100
A quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.
What is humidity?
200
The general weather conditions prevailing in an area over a long period.
What is climate
200
A could forming wispy, filamentous, tufted streak at high altitude.
What is cirrus?
200
The warming of the atmosphere by its absorbing and reemitting of infrared tadiation back to earth.
What is greenhouse effect?
200
Sailors know that if these birds are clustering the beaches and not flying about over the ocean, a strong storm is on its way
What are sea gulls?
200
'Wind from the _________ brings rain in its mouth.'
What is south?
300
A quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.
What is humidity?
300
A precipitation-producing cloud forming a towering mass with a flat base at failry low altitude and ofetn a flat top, as in thunderstorms.
What is cumulonimbus?
300
A cloud forming a continuous horizontal gray sheet.
What is stratus?
300
If the dawn is gray, and there is _______ in the valley, the weather that day will be clear.
What is Fog?
300
An irregularly occurring and complex series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial Pacific region and beyond every few years; typically in the winter months.
What is El Nino?
400
The force per unit area exerted into a surface by the weight of air above that surface in the atmosphere.
What is air pressure?
400
Water that collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it.
What is condensation?
400
Winds that blow over a small area; often due to regional effects such as mountain barriers, lakes, and other influences.
What is local winds?
400
The presence of heavy frost or dew early in the morning or late in the evening is a failry reliable indicator that up to 12 hours of continued ______ weather may be expected.
What is good?
400
__________ travels further when a storm approaches because the higher humidity helps to carry its waves.
What is sound?
500
The climate of a very small or restricted area, especially when it differs from the climate of the surrounding area.
What is microclimate?
500
A cooling of the water in the equatorial Pacific that occurs at irregualr intervals and associated with widespread changes in weather patterns complementary to those of El Nino.
What is La Nina?
500
A cloud forming rounded masses heaped on each other above a flat base at fairly low altitude.
What is cumulus?
500
These amphibians have an uncanny tnedency to increase their serenading several hours before a storm arrives because the increased humidity allows them to stay out of the water long.
What are frogs?
500
A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally atributed to the greengouse effect.