Water Cycle
Weather
Clouds
Storms
Weather Instruments
100
Name one of the steps of the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation or runoff
100
A huge body of air that has similar temperatures, humidity and air pressure.
What is air masses
100
Name the three types of clouds
What is cumulus, stratus and cirrus
100
A tropical storm that has winds of 119 kilometers per hour aor higher; typically about 600 kilometers across.
What is a hurrican
100
Measures temperature; units: degree
What is thermometer
200
The process by which water molecules in liquid water escape into the air as water vapor
What is evaboration
200
What is the atmosphere made up of?
What is oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen.
200
Clouds that are fluffy, rounded piles of cotton
What is cumlus
200
Define a tornado
What is a rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface, usually leaving a destructive path.
200
what does an anemometer measure
What is wind speed
300
Name four types of precipitation
What is rain, sleet, snow and hail
300
Define El Nino
What is an event that occurs every two to seven years in the pacific ocean, during which winds shift and push warm surface water toward the coast of South America.
300
What does stratus mean?
What is spread out
300
A warm air mass that forms in the tropics and has low air pressure.
What is a tropical storm
300
what measures precipitation such as rain, snow, hail and sleet?
What is rain gauge
400
Define run off
What is precipitation that has fallen back to the earth and back into the oceans, lakes, rivers or land
400
Define wind and the difference between land breeze and sea breeze.
What is the horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area od lower pressure. Land breeze is the flow of air from land to a body of water and sea breeze is the flow of air from an ocean or lake to the land.
400
How are clouds classified?
What is by their altitude and type of weather
400
When are thunderstorms most likely to occur?
What is in the spring and summer months
400
How is humidity measured?
What is using a hydrometer to figure out how much moisture is in the air.
500
Explain the for parts of a water cycle
What is evaporation which is the process of water molecules in liquid water escaping into the air as water vapor. Condensation which is the process by which molecules of water vapor in the air become liquid water. Precipitation is rain, sleet, snow and hail that occurs when so much water had condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore. Runoff is precipitation that has fallen back to the earth and back into the oceans, lakes, rivers or land
500
List and define the four types of air masses
What is Maritime Tropical-warm, humid air Maritime Polar- cool, humid air Continental Tropical- hot, dry Continental Polar- cold, clear, dry
500
Define what a cumulus, stratus and cirrus clouds?
What is cumulus are fulffuy and rounded piles of cotton. Stratus are formed in flat layers and produce rain, drizzle, or snow. Cirrus are wispy, feathery clouds and are made of ice crystals.
500
What three things do thunderstorms need?
What is moisture, unstable air and lift
500
Name two instruments that measure relative humidity
What is hygrometer and psychrometer
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