Cloud Types
Natural Occerences
Air Masses
Statistics
What is....
100
Cumulus Cloud
What cloud is known as the "fair weather cloud"
100
What is when hot air rises and is replaced by cold air.
How is wind made?
100
Continental Tropical
What does cT mean?
100
8,640,000
How many lightning strikes are there in a day?
100
water particles that fall from clouds.
What is rain?
200
Altostratus clouds
What kind of cloud covers the entire sky?
200
What is water droplets moving up and down in the clouds
How is Hail Made
200
Continental, Tropical, Maritime, and Polar
What are the 4 kinds of air mass variables
200
2,000
How many thunderstorms are on the earth at any giving time?
200
Frozen rain
What is snow?
300
Ice crystles
What is a cloud made of?
300
1 Kilowatt.
How much electricity is in a lightning bolt?
300
Maritime Tropical
What does mT mean
300
1,200
How many tornado hit the U.S each year?
300
cold air rushing to replace warm air.
What is wind?
400
Cirrus Clouds
What cloud is thin and wispy?
400
It is caused by an earthquake under the ocean.
How is a tsunami formed?
400
In canada
Where is one of the places a cP can form?
400
24
How many tusnamis are on record
400
water that is bounced up and down in clods and fall as ice pellets.
What is hail?
500
Cumulonimbus Cloud
What cloud is shaped like an anvil
500
What is Catastrophic events are caused by the earth Natural hazards are caused by humans.
What is the difference between Catastrophic events and natural hazards?
500
Maritime Tropical
What kind of air mass forms over the gulf of Mexico?
500
48
How many Hurricanes have hit the us?
500
When a cold front hits a warm front and cold air is constantly replacing warm air and swirls creating a tornado.
What is a tornado?
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