Winds
Instruments
Clouds
Storms
lightning
100
A fast flowing river of air found in the atmosphere.
What is the jet stream?
100
An instrument that measures totals or rates of rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
100
Frozen ice molecules, tiny water droplets, and ice crystals.
What are clouds made of?
100
The type of thunderstorm that occurs along the boundaries of weather fronts.
What is a frontal thunderstorm?
100
The electric charges are mixed up.
What is in a calm sky?
200
Air movements toward the equator between 0 degrees and 30 degrees.
What are the trade winds?
200
Temperature, water vapor, and evaporation.
What are the factors that affect air pressure?
200
The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is troposphere?
200
A violently rotating column of air that is very destructive.
What is a tornado?
200
Sky is filled with electric charge. In a calm sky, the + and - charges are ______ up.
What is mixed?
300
Easterlies begin in the _______.
What is the west?
300
An instrument that measures wind direction.
What is a weather vane?
300
Heat transfer within the atmosphere involving the upward movement of huge volumes of warm air, leading to subsequent condensation and cloud formation.
What is convection?
300
The calmest part of the storm.
What is the eye of a hurricane?
300
A bright flash of electricity.
What is lightning?
400
The prevailing winds in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude, blowing towards the poles.
What are the westerlies?
400
An instrument that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
The ocean, earth's mantle, and atmosphere.
Where does convection happen?
400
Thunderstorm, tropical depression, tropical storm, and finally a hurricane.
What are the stages a storm goes through before becoming a hurricane?
400
A sudden electrostatic discharge during an electric storm.
What is lightning?
500
Wind
What is moving air?
500
He invented the barometer.
Who is Evangelista Torricelli?
500
Thin wispy clouds blown by high winds and they are considered high clouds.
What are cirrus clouds?
500
Cumulus, Mature, Dissipating.
What are the stages of a thunderstorm?
500
At the top of the thunderstorm cloud.
Where are the positive charges in a thunderstorm cloud?
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