Water Cycle
Air Masses
Fronts
Clouds
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Term for any form of water that falls to the ground
Precipitation
100
Brings cold weather
Polar
100
Warm air rises because it is _______ dense than cold air
Less
100
What term in the water cycle would be used to describe how clouds form?
Condensation
100
The pope lives in the Vatican, in which country is the Vatican in?
Italy
200
Term for when water becomes water vapor
Evaporation
200
Brings warm weather
Tropical
200
The term for the boundary between 2 air masses
Front
200
What type of cloud indicates a thunderstorm?
Cumulonimbus
200
x2 + 64=100
What are the 2 values of x?
6 and -6
300
Term for water on Earth's surface moving downhill to a larger body of water
Runoff
300
Forms over land
Continental
300
What type of front is when cold air pushes up warm air? It also brings rain or snow and then cold temperatures
Cold front
300
What type of cloud brings all day rain?
Nimbostratus
300
Name 1 human body part with only 3 letters (10 possible answers)
eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum
400
When gravity pulls water down through the soil
Percolation
400
Forms over water
Maritime
400
What is this the symbol for?
Warm front
400
For condensation to happen, what must the air be?
100% saturated
400
What natural phenomenon has enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread?
A bolt of lightning
500
When the ground is too saturated and cannot absorb more water it begins to collect in one area
Accumulation
500
An air mass starts over the Gulf of Mexico and brings hot humid weather. What type of air mass is it?
Maritime tropical
500
What is this the symbol for?
Stationary front
500
What type of cloud is in the highest altitude and indicates weather change?
Cirrus
500
In what year did the Titanic sink?
1912