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Clouds
Instruments
Storms & Energy
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100
Forms when water condenses on blades of grass
What is dew?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
Instrument that measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
100
Where hurricanes get their energy
What are warm ocean waters?
100
A large piece of ice off a glacier or ice sheet
What is a glacier?
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 know for fair weather. But watch out! They could turn into a thunderstorm.
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Measures wind direction
What is a wind vane?
200
Kind of energy that comes from the sun
What is radiant energy?
200
When water freezes on a surface without first becoming a liquid
What is frost?
300
Amount of water vapor in the air?
What is humidity?
300
Then, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
300
Kind of energy that moves through water
What are convection currents?
300
Direction winds blow in the Northern Hemisphere
What is west to east?
400
Type of water found in rivers, lakes, and streams
What is fresh surface water?
400
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rains, strong winds, and lightning
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
Where all weather takes place in the atmosphere
What is the troposphere?
400
Layer of the atmosphere where weather satellites are found
What is the exosphere?
400
Percent of Earth covered by water
What is 70%?
500
Why it is more humid in winter than in summer
What is "warm air holds more moisture than cold air"?
500
Where weather is perfect for a storm to form
What are fronts?
500
AVERAGE weather over a long period of time
What is climate?
500
What a severe storm WARNING means
What is a storm has been spotted and you need to take cover immediately.
500
Kind of weather a high pressure system brings
What is sunny and fair weather?
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