Science Basics
The day-to-day variation of the atmosphere's condition locally.
Liquid rain that falls onto frozen ground and freezes.
What is freezing rain?
This tool measures the amount of precipitation that occurs in a given period of time.
This cloud prefix means mid-level
What is alto-?
When warm and cool air masses converge, this is likely to occur.
What is severe weather?
Liquid (water), solid (ice), gas (vapor) are the ones found on Earth.
What is the three states of water?
The only precipitation type that begins falling already in solid form.
What is snow?
A tool that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This cloud type appears as flat, sheet-like layers.
What is stratus?
The four stages of the water cycle.
What is collection, evaporation, condensation and precipitation?
Data that has been analyzed and interpreted to support a scientific claim.
What is evidence?
What is sediment, dirt, dissolved salts, etc.?
The job of a meteorologist.
What is analyze weather patterns and predict local weather?
This type of cloud is high-level and looks like small, fluffy heaps.
What is cirrocumulus?
As the dew point increases to a level similar to the air temperature, this also increases.
What is humidity?
These describe patterns or state what happens.
What are laws?
The longest phase of the water cycle (can be days to thousands of years).
The unit that wind speed is measured in.
What is miles per hour?
This prefix refers to a cloud that has an altitude above 20,000 feet.
What is cirro-?
This determines the size of hail that fails.
What is the number of times the ice is swept back up into the cloud and coated in water?
The process of making observations, forming a hypothesis, conducting an experiment, analyzing data, and draw a conclusion.
What is the scientific method?
The process in which water is heated until it becomes water vapor; this then rises and enters into a special tube that allows the vapor to cool and become liquid once again.
What is distillation?
The five pieces of data gathered by a weather station.
What is temperature, precipitation amount, air pressure, wind speed, wind direction?
A layered, sheet-like cloud that is around 11,000 feet.
What is altostratus?
The process in which certain gasses in the Earth's atmosphere trap heat from the sun.
What is the greenhouse effect?