Water Cycle
Weather Facts
Air masses and fronts
Clouds
Severe weather
100
Water changes from a liquid to a gas in this process
What is evaporation?
100
Humidity is the amount of this in the air.
What is water or moisture?
100
Air with similar temperature and humidity.
What is an air mass?
100
A large, dark cloud that produces rain, hail, lightning, and thunder is called a _________.
Cumulonimbus Cloud
100
Name 2 types of severe weather.
thunderstorms
tornadoes
tropical storms
hurricanes
winter storms
200
The water cycle depends on _______ to provide it energy
What is the sun?
200
True or False: The Gulf Stream travels up the west coast of the United States
False
200
Kind of weather you have with a high pressure air mass.
What is cold and dry? / What is clear and fair?
200
How do clouds form?
Water vapour rises and condenses.
200
This is the number one indicator of whether precipitation will come down as rain or snow.
Temperature
300
The process of water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water.
What is condensation?
300
The Gulf Stream helps to make temperatures _____ during the winter months in NC.
warmer
300
Weather with a low pressure air mass.
What is cloudy and rainy?
300
Name this cloud
Stratus
300
Hurricanes are caused because of a large area of _____ air pressure over water.
low
400
The way in which water returns to the earth
What is precipitation?
400
This is used to measure atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
What causes a weather front.
When 2 different air masses collide
400
Name this cloud
Cirrus
400
Where do hurricanes form?
In warm ocean water
500
The process of water vapor from plants returning to the air
What is transpiration?
500
Name the 4 types of precipitation.
Rain, Sleet, Hail, Snow
500
What type of weather is created with a cold front?
Cooler temperatures, rain or snow.
500
Name this cloud
cumulus
500
This is a picture of a ___________?
Tornado