Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Fronts and Air Masses
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100
Clouds where hail is formed
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Storms often brought with a cold front
What is a thunderstorm?
100
Name the air mass that forms over the middle of Canada. This air mass has been moving south causing extremely cold temperatures in the U.S.
What is a continental polar air mass?
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
A micro-scale storm of spinning clouds with a funnel shape.
What is a tornado?
200
This front forms when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass and neither wants to move.
What is a stationary front?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!! Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Instrument that measures atmospheric pressure
What is a barometer?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
Name the air mass that forms over the Gulf of Mexico and brings warm humid air.
What is a maritime tropical air mass?
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What are stratus clouds?
400
A boundary between 2 air masses.
What is a front?
400
A pressure system commonly associated with wet and lousy weather.
What is a low pressure system?
400
This front forms when cold air slides under warm air, pushing it upward, creating clouds, precipitation and storms.
What is a cold front?
500
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
500
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Two characteristics that determine an air mass are ______ and ________.
What is temperature and moisture? (amount of water vapor is acceptable answer)
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