What are Boiling and Freezing Temperatures for Water?
100
Thick, gray clouds near the Earth's surface that cause rain.
What are stratus clouds?
100
Measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
100
When 2 air masses bump into each other, it causes this.
What is a front?
100
If it starts to precipitate and the temperature is below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, this will occur.
What is snow?
200
The other unit used to measure temperature which most of the world uses for their standard unit.
What is Celsius?
200
Rain, sleet, snow, and hail
What are forms of precipitation?
200
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
200
Air masses that come from the North or South poles.
What are cold air masses?
200
Georgia's normal weather patterns can be described as moderate. The normal weather patterns in Antarctica can be described as very cold (polar). These are regular patterns of a particular location.
What is climate?
300
This is the first phase of the water cycle in which water turns from liquid to gas (water vapor).
What is evaporation?
300
Clouds that are high in the atmosphere and look like a horse’s tail.
What are cirrus?
300
Measure wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300
Air masses that come from everywhere that is NOT the North or South poles.
What are warm air masses?
300
Heats the Earth's surface which causes movement of air
What is the sun?
400
This part of the water cycle involves cloud formation. It can also cause fog and dew closer to the Earth's surface.
What is condensation?
400
Clouds that look like cotton balls or cauliflower. They can accumulate (grow larger into cumulonimbus) and cause rain.
What are cumulus?
400
Measures humidity (amount of moisture in the air)
What is a hygrometer?
400
Slow moving warm air mass moving over cold air. It brings rain from Stratus clouds that can last a couple days. The weather will be warm afterwards.
What is a warm front?
400
Causes weather to move from one location to another
What is wind?
500
The last phase of the water cycle in which water flows across the Earth's surface and collects in lakes and oceans.
What is runoff?
500
Any clouds that cause thunderstorms
What are nimbus?
500
A person who forecasts weather conditions
What is a meteorologist?
500
It pushes the warm air up causing nimbus clouds. It brings thunderstorms, lightning and possibly tornadoes. It leaves quickly. The weather will be cool afterwards.