Vocabulary
Severe Weather
States of Matter
The Water Cycle
Weather
100
The study of weather.
What is meteorolgy?
100
Tell me ways to be safe in a thunderstorm
What is staying away from metal, tall trees, going into the basement, not using a telephone with a cord, staying out of the shower, etc.
100
The temperature at which water changes to ice.
What is 32 degrees F or 0 degrees C?
100
The process by which a water vapor changes into a liquid.
What is condensation?
100
The border that is formed between two air masses when a warm air mass collides with a cold air mass.
What is a front?
200
Boundary between different air masses.
What is a front?
200
A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud, that can reach out from the clouds and touch the Earth's surface causing a lot of damage.
What is a tornado?
200
When water vapor cools and condenses on dust particles in the air, these are formed.
Clouds
200
The process by which water changes into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
A high pressure area will cause a rising barometer and will often indicate that the weather will be
clear, sunny, fair weather.
300
The condition of the atmosphere at a particular time?
What is weather?
300
The very center of a storm that forms over warm waters and can last for a couple of weeks.
The eye of a hurricane?
300
The process in which water turns into ice
What is freezing?
300
The process by which heavy water droplets fall to Earth?
What is precipitation?
300
This kind of weather can be expected when a warm air mass moves over a cold air mass.
What is a steady rain?
400
The pattern of weather in an area over time.
What is climate?
400
These storms have an unpredictable path.
What is a tornado?
400
Water vapor that has condensed into small droplets near the ground is called this.
Fog
400
Runoff is best described as _____
water flows on the ground.
400
Three factors that create weather.
The sun, water, and air
500
A large body of air with the same temperature and humidity.
What is an air mass?
500
This weather event usually includes heavy precipitation, strong winds, and surface air temperatures below 0 C.
What is a blizzard?
500
Explain why water droplets form on the outside of your glass in the summer.
Condensation- water vapor turns into water droplets.
500
The constant movement of water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back to Earth's surface.
What is the water cycle?
500
A sudden change in the weather at a certain location is most likely caused by
the arrival of an air mass.
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