Water Cycle
Predicting Patterns
Clouds
Weather Conditions
Climate Factors
100
Water that is stored underground
What is groundwater?
100
Moving air.
What is wind?
100
Puffy white clouds with flat bases, that signal fair OR stormy weather
What are cumulus clouds?
100
A storm with thunder and lightning and typically also heavy rain or hail.
What is a thunderstorm?
100
The climate zone that is nearest to the equator.
What is the tropical climate zone?
200
Water that flows down slopes and across Earth's surface.
What is runoff?
200
The weight of the atmosphere on Earth's surface.
What is air pressure?
200
Thin, feathery, white clouds that usually signal fair weather.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
A severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.
What is a blizzard?
200
The climate zone furthest away from the equator.
What is the polar climate zone?
300
Water that is stored in a large, slow-moving mass of ice.
What is a glacier?
300
A large body of air that has the same temperature and moisture properties throughout.
What is air mass?
300
Clouds that form flat layers that cover most of the sky, and signal rain.
What are stratus clouds?
300
A storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean that starts on the coast of Africa.
What is a hurricane?
300
The climate zone in the middle, which most of America is in.
What is the temperate climate zone?
400
The stage in the water cycle when a liquid changes to a gas and rises.
What is evaporation?
400
The boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
400
A dark grey cloud bearing rain.
What are nimbus clouds?
400
A rotating column of air ranging in width from a few yards to more than a mile and whirling at destructively high speeds, usually accompanied by a funnel-shaped downward extension of a cumulonimbus cloud.
What is a tornado?
400
The lines that run sideways across Earth, equator.
What are lines of latitude?
500
When the liquid changes to a gas.
What is condensation?
500
A map that uses symbols to show data in weather.
What is a weather map?
500
A visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.
What is a cloud?
500
A soft westward breeze that the name because of a Greek brother zephyrus.
What is a zephyr?
500
The lines that run across Earth, up and down, prime meridian.
What are lines of longitude?
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