Air & Wind
Water Cycle & Clouds
Severe Weather
Vocabulary
100
A gas made of 1/5 oxygen & 4/5 nitrogen.
What is air?
100
Moisture falling from the sky.
What is precipitation?
100
A storm that produces lightning, rain, and wind?
What is a thunderstorm?
100
A large cumulus cloud that is ready to drop precipation.
What is a thunderhead?
200
The movement of air from high pressure to low pressure areas.
What is wind?
200
Condensation, precipitation, evaporation.
What is the water cycle?
200
Violent circular storm that forms over a warm ocean.
What is a hurricane?
200
Water in gas form.
What is water vapor?
300
The weight of air pushing down on earth's surface.
What is air pressure?
300
Cumulus, stratus, cirrus.
What are three types of clouds?
300
The place where a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet.
What is a front?
300
The process in which water vapor changes to a liquid.
What is condensation?
400
The other major gases in air, besides oxygen & nitrogen.
What are carbon dioxide & water vapor?
400
Clouds are made of this.
What is water vapor?
400
A snowstorm combined with high winds.
What is a blizzard?
400
The amount of matter something contains.
What is mass?
500
What is one way wind is useful for plants and animals?
Plants use wind to spread seeds, animals use wind to fly.
500
The land on the side of the mountain away from an ocean that doesn't receive much rain.
What is a rain shadow?
500
The kind of front that often results in a thunderstorm.
What is a warm front?
500
A scientist who studies weather.
What is a meteorologist?
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