Clouds
Severe Weather
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What is a puffy, fair weather cloud called?
A cumulus cloud
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A large funnel cloud of spinning air is called this weather event.
A tornado
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What item is in space that allows us to receive weather information?
weather satellite
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When Mrs. Turner hits the Powerball jackpot, she will buy a hut on a beach in this type of climate. It is always warm there.
tropical climate
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What is the prefix that means high?
Cirro, or cirrus
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What is the prefix that means rain?
Nimbo or nimbus
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Static in the air causes this to happen in the sky.
Lightning
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This person makes predictions and reports conditions that are occuring in the troposphere.
Weather forecaster
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You don't have to be a white bear to live here, but it would help if your climate was this
polar climate
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This prefix means low, just like the singers in the choir that sing low...
Alto
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What kind of cloud looks like a blanket in the sky?
A stratus cloud
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This happens at the same time as lightning but it sounds like it happens later.
Thunder
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What is it called when a large body of air has about the same temperature and air pressure?
air mass
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This line is imaginary, but it starts at the north pole, goes through the center of the earth and ends up at the south pole. The earth turns on it!
axis
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This type of cloud is fluffy but it is also called a thunderhead. What is its name?
Cumulonimbus Cloud
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These types of clouds look like wispy commas way high in the sky. They are called this
Cirrus clouds
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This is a huge thunderstorm that starts out over the warm ocean.
Hurricane
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On a weather map, a line with half circles on it represents this type of front
warm front
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Brrrrrr......A time in our history that glaciers covered the earth was called this
ice age
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During this weather event you should get to high ground, away from the creek or river, so you are not swept by fast moving water.
Flash flood
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How do cirrus clouds form?
Ice crystals form high in the sky!
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This gives a hurricane the energy it needs to grow.
Warm ocean water
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The average weather conditions for an area over time is referred to as this
climate
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This imaginary line cuts the earth into the North and South Hemispheres
The equator
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A tornado's winds can travel up to this speed.
150 miles per hour
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