Clouds
Precipitation
Storms
Air Masses
Water Cycle
100
Clouds that form in flat layers.
What is stratus
100
Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface is?
What is precipitation
100
A violent distrurbance in the atmosphere.
What is a storm.
100
A huge body of air in the lower atmosphere that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure.
What is air mass
100
Water leaves the atmosphere by this process.
What is condensation.
200
Clouds that look like cotton.
What is cumulus?
200
The most common type of precipitation.
What is rain
200
A snowstorm with prolonged winds of 56k per hour or greater and considerable falling or blowing snow that reduces visibility.
What is a blizzard.
200
Air masses that form over oceans.
What is maritime
200
Water vapor enters the atmosphere by this process.
What is evaporation.
300
In what shape are cumulonimbus clouds?
What is anvil?
300
This type of precipitation falls as a droplet but freezes upon contact with a cold surface
What is freezing rain
300
Form in large cumulonimbus clouds, also known as thunderheads
What is a thunderstorm.
300
Warm air masses that form in the tropics and have low air pressure.
What is tropical.
300
Measures relative humidity.
What is a psychrometer.
400
This cloud type is often associated with drizzle, rain, or snow.
What is nimbostratus
400
An open-ended tube that collects rain.
What is rain guage
400
In the Indian ocean they are called typhoons.
What is a hurricane.
400
Ir mass that forms over Canada and Alaska.
What is continental polar.
400
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity.
500
How do clouds form?
What is clouds form when water vapor in the air condenses to from liquid water or ice crystals.
500
Common types of precipitation
What is rain, snow, sleet, hail, and freezing rain
500
Tornadoes are ranked on this scale by the amount of damage they cause.
What is the enhanced fujita scale.
500
Colliding air masses form four types of fronts.
What is cold, warm, occluding, and stationary.
500
The movement of water on the Earth.
What is the water cycle.
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