Clouds
The three main ingredients needed for clouds to form:
What is moisture, condensation, and temperature
Humidity is the amount of this in the air
What is water or moisture
A front is a weather system that is the boundary separating two different types of air. The clashing of air types causes this
What is weather: rain, snow, cold days, hot days, and windy days. One type of air is usually denser than the other, with different temperatures and different levels of humidity.
I measure the speed of wind
What is anemometer
The severity of a Hurricane is ranked using
What are numbers
Name the 3 main types of clouds
What is cirrus, cumulus, and stratus.
*Stratus Flat or layered clouds. The word "stratus" comes from Latin and means "layered" or "flat"
Extreme weather has become more frequent and severe because of
What is the continued release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
if you have a fever or to measure the temperature of the air, use me
What is a thermometer
After 1979 hurricanes were named this way
What is alternating male and female names
This type of cloud brings rain
What is nimbus
There are four types of fronts. The names and what kind of weather they bring are
The four types of fronts are warm, cold, stationary, and occluded. Warm fronts bring poor visibility. Cold fronts bring precipitation. Stationary fronts bring a mix of cold and warm front conditions. If a front is not moving, it is a stationary front. An Occluded Front forms when a warm air mass gets caught between two cold air masses.
I measure air pressure
What is a barometer
The newest weather name lower mainland recently experienced
What is a bomb cyclone
The weight of an average cloud is heavy or light
What is They’re heavy. An average cumulus cloud (fluffy white cloud) weighs the same as a jumbo jet - about 500 tonnes.
As a result of a cold front, this kind of weather will be sure to follow
What is heavy rains or violent thunderstorms
Curious about how much rain fell in a certain period of time? Use me to measure it
What is a rain gauge
A massive wave caused by an underwater earthquake is called this
What is a tsunami
Clouds form when this kind of air rises, expands and cools.
What is warm air
Warm air mass meets and rises above cold air masses during this kind of front
What is warm
Which country would most likely be affected by a typhoon
What is Japan