Clouds
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Precipitation
100

What are clouds made of?

What are water droplets

100

This has high winds and can damage homes and cars

What is tornado

100

how warm or cold the air is

temperature

100

air that is super heated by lightning causes

thunder
100
Water drops falling steadily from the sky

What is rain

200

Name 3 types of clouds

What is cumulous, stratus and cirrus

200

This storm forms over warm oceans.

What is Hurricane

200

moving air is called

What is wind

200

A prediction about future weather

what is a forecast
200

Frozen water falling gently from the sky

What is snow

300

What type of cloud is puffy and looks like a cotton ball?

What is cumulus

300
Cumulonimbus clouds produce

What is thunderstorms

300

Scientists measure moving air two ways.

What is wind speed and direction

300

Science word for falling water

what is precipitation

300

Very light rain

What is drizzle

400

what type of cloud appears as a grey blanket covering the sky?

What is Stratus

400

This storm causes whiteouts.

What is Blizzard

400
A rain gauge measures

precipitation

400
A scientist who studies weather

meterologist

400

Ice pellets/balls falling from the sky

what is hail

500
What type of clouds are thin and wispy (look like a horse's tail)?

What is cirrus

500

This severe weather event can happen either very quickly or more slowly.

What is a flood

500

how much water vapor is in the air

Humidity

500
The layer of the atmosphere where weather happens

what is the troposphere

500

Very fine raindrops with fog

What is mist

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