Vocabulary
The measure of how hot or cold the weather is at a given time.
Temperature
These types of clouds are located high in the sky, look like mares tails, and are indication of dry weather.
Cirrus clouds
This ecosystem is located in Florida.
Swamp
What is the freezing temperature of water in Celsius and Farenheit.
32 degrees F and 0 degrees C
Low pressure is an indication of what type of weather?
Precipitation
Direction from which the wind is blowing or originates.
Wind Direction
These clouds are like blankets that cover the sky and are an indication that precipatation is on it's way.
Stratus
This ecosystem has low humidity, can be over 100 degrees farenheit in the summer, but can get to -40 degrees farenheit in the winter and is usually located in a temperate climate zone.
Grasslands
Hail will likely fall in which type of storm?
Thunderstorms
The type of precipitation that falls to the ground is determined by what?
Temperature, whether below freezing or not.
Water in the air caused by evaporation from the water cycle.
Humidity
These types of clouds indicate thunder storms are approaching.
Cumulonimbus.
What factor would be a reason that snow at the tops of mountains do not melt, even throughout the summer?
Temperature
This type of precipitation is half frozen rain or half frozen snow.
Sleet
The weather reports low pressure and high humidity with some stratus clouds. What kind of weather can you expect?
sunny and dry
sunny, but humid
rainy, but not stormy
Rainy, but not stormy
Water vapor that condensates as a liquid or solid that falls from the atmosphere to Earth as rain, snow, sleet ,or hail.
Precipitation
These clouds look like cotton balls and an indication of sunny weather when they are located low in the sky.
Cumulus
These two types of ecosystem are the driest.
Desert and Tundra
This typr of precipitation occurs when the temperature is above freezing.
Rain
What kind of storm can be happening if the temperature is below freezing, the air pressure has dropped, and the wind has reached speeds of 40 km/hr.
Blizzard
The pressure exerted by gas particles in Earth’s atmosphere as those particles collide with objects.
Air pressure/Atmospheric pressure/ Barometric pressure
What weather do cumulus clouds that are located high in the sky indicate?
Cold weather is approaching.
This type of ecosystem has high humidity, lots of precipitation, located in Tropical climate zones, and is a lush forrest?
Rain forest
What type of precipitation will most likely fall if these conditions were happening?
0 degrees celsius/32 degrees farenheit
Low pressure
Stratus clouds
Snow
The hurricane season in Florida is between which months?
June-November