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What are clouds made of?
What is water
The cycle of condensation, precipitation, runoff and evaporation
What is the water cycle
Most common type of storm.
Sandstorm
Thunderstorm
Snowstorm
What is thunderstorm
The four main types of air masses.
What is:
continental polar (cP), continental tropical (cT), maritime polar (mP), maritime tropical (mT)
What is the imaginary line where the warmest places on Earth are found?
What is the equator
The process of turning from liquid to vapor
What is evaporation
What determines the type of precipitation that will fall
What is temperature
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape.
Tornado
Yo Yo
Merry Go Round
What is tornado
Measures the temperature
What is a thermometer
The conditions over a short period of time.
What is weather
Describe the climate in Wolcott, NY.
What is four seasons
The kind of front that is red with half circles.
What is warm front
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water.
Hurricane
Tornado
Blizzard
What is hurricane
Used to determine the direction of the wind, this does not measure wind speed.
What is a weather vane
The conditions over a long period of time.
What is climate
Type of clouds that fall in the mid range of the sky.
What are alto clouds
Cumulonimbus clouds are called vertical clouds because...
What they go up and down spanning from about 6,000 to about 12,000 ft.
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall.
Drought
Flood
Watermelon
What is flood
I measure air pressure.
What is barometer
This flows between a warm and cold air masses
What is jet steam
These things help reduce weather impacts.
What are sandbags, storm shutters, lightning rods, man-made sand dunes.
Someone who is trained to predict the weather is called a.
What is a meteorologist
Balls of ice that fall out of the sky.
What is hail
Which geographic area is a common source region for cP air masses that move into New York State?
What is central Canada
Why are high level clouds light and less dense?
What is because warm air rises and is less dense.