Fronts
Severe Weather
Clouds
The Water Cycle
Pot luck
100
What is a front that occurs when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass?
What is a stationary front?
100
What is a weather system that can produce high winds, hail, or tornados?
What is a severe thunderstorm?
100
What is the name of the type of cloud that is white and puffy and usually has a flat bottom?
What is a cumulus cloud?
100
What is the first step of the water cycle?
What is evaporation?
100
What are hurricanes called in the Indian Ocean?
What is a cyclone?
200
What type of front can bring thunderstorms, and heavy rain or snow?
What is a cold front?
200
What is a tropical weather system that contains winds rotating at speeds of at least 120 km/h?
What is a hurricane?
200
What are thin, feathery, white clouds at high altitudes called?
What is a cirrus cloud?
200
What is any type of substance that falls from the earth to the sky?
What is precipitation?
200
What are areas that have high pressure called?
What are anticyclones?
300
What type of front causes a drizzly rain followed by warm weather?
What is a warm front?
300
What is a small, spinning funnel of air that has winds that rotate at high speeds and touch the ground?
What is a tornado?
300
Fog is what type of cloud?
What is a stratus cloud?
300
What is the step of the water cycle that comes before and causes collection?
What is surface runoff?
300
What level on the Fujita scale represents 86-110 mph winds?
What is an F1 tornado?
400
What is the most dense type of front?
What is a cold front?
400
What type of weather system is an electric discharge?
What is lightning?
400
Which type of cloud covers vast areas of the sky and usually block out the sun?
What is a stratus cloud?
400
What happens to water vapor during condensation?
What is water vapor cools and changes from a gas to a liquid?
400
What clouds form hail?
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
500
What type of front occurs when a warm air mass gets caught between two colder air masses?
What is an occluded front?
500
What are hurricanes called in the Western Pacific?
What is a typhoon?
500
Which type of cloud forms when warm air rises?
What is a cumulus cloud?
500
At what stage does water change into water vapor?
What is evaporation?
500
What is the condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place?
What is weather?
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