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 cloud that brings thunderstorms
What is a Cumulonimbus cloud
100
this severe weather forms over warm ocean waters
What are hurricanes?
200
The water cycle depends on _______ to provide it energy
What is the sun?
200
Air pressure always moves from low to high
False
200
An air mass that forms near the equator, over the ocean
What is a maritime tropical air mass
200
How do clouds form?
Water vapor rises and condenses.
200
True or false? Hail occurs in the summer and Sleet occurs in the winter
True
300
The process of water molecules in the air is changed into liquid water.
What is condensation?
300
What is humidity?
Amount of water vapor in the air.
300
Weather with a low pressure air mass.
What is cloudy and rainy?
300
Name this type of clouds that are low blankets
What are Stratus clouds
300
True or false? Tornadoes are only visible because of the debris it picks up?
True
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
Changes in weather is caused by 2 ________ colliding.
fronts
400
cloud that is thin, wispy and high in the sky
What is a Cirrus cloud
400
True or false? Tornados are categorized on a scale of 1-10.
False
Scale of 1-5
500
The process of water vapor from plants returning to the air
What is transpiration?
500
High air pressure air has less air molecules than low air pressure
TRUE
500
What type of weather is created with a cold front?
Cooler temperatures, rain or snow.
500
Name this cloud that is puffy like cotton, found in fair weather
What are cumulus clouds
500
This is a picture of a ___________?
Tornado