Clouds
What are clouds made of?
Condensed water particles
What is evaporate?
Energy from the sun warms the water on the earth causing it to do this.
What is a weather vane?
This measures the wind direction.
What is a front?
The boundary between two air masses.
Which heats and cools faster: Land or Water?
Land
Name 3 types of clouds
What is cumulous, stratus and cirrus
What are tiny drops of water or water vapor?
Clouds are made up of this.
This measures the wind direction.
What is a weather vane?
What is a warm front?
A curved line with rounded bumps on a weather map.
During the day, the land heats up _______ the water, so a breeze will blow from the sea to the land, called a sea breeze.
What type of cloud is wispy and feathery
What is cirrus
What is fog?
One of these is NOT a form of precipitation: Rain; Sleet; Snow; Fog; Freezing Rain; Hail
What is a rain gauge?
This measures the amount of precipitation.
What is a cold front?
This is associated with a very rapid weather change.
What is a cold front?
This is when a cold air mass pushes out a warm air mass, often bringing thunderstorms, or heavy rains, followed by sunshine and cool weather
what type of cloud appears as a blanket covering the sky?
What is Stratus
What is precipitation?
As more and more tiny droplets of liquid form in a cloud, they combine and get heavier causing this.
What is an anemometer?
This measures the speed of the wind.
What is a cold front?
This is when a cold air mass pushes out a warm air mass, often bringing thunderstorms, or heavy rains, followed by sunshine and cool weather.
Which city, Bismark, North Dakota or Seattle, Washington would have a HIGHER difference between day and night temperatures?
Bismark
Which clouds do you make shapes out of on a SUNNY day?
cumulous
What is condense?
To condense means to change from a gas to a liquid. As warm moist air rises, it begins to cool, which causes the water vapor in the air to do this.
What is a barometer?
This measures the force exerted by the weight of the air.
The city near land would have a larger temperature difference from day to night and the city near water would have less of a temperature difference from day to night.