Clouds
Storms
Fronts
True and False
Other
100
This indicates fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
Can cause one or more of the the following: flash floods, high winds, hail, and tornadoes.
What is a severe thunderstorm?
100
They form where warm air moves over cold denser air.
What is a warm front?
100
Lightening is an electric discharge that occurs between two positive charged areas.
What is false?
100
This forms when rain falls through a layer of freezing air.
What is sleet.
200
These clouds form in thin layers.
What are stratus clouds?
200
They are the most powerful storms on earth.
What are hurricanes?
200
They form when warm air mass is caught between two colder air masses.
What is an occluded front?
200
Areas that have lower pressure than the surrounding areas do are called cyclones.
What is true?
200
This is water in solid or liquid form that falls down to the earth.
What is precipitation?
300
This is a type of stratus cloud.
What is fog?
300
Can happen between two clouds, between the earth and a cloud, or even between two parts of the same cloud.
What is lightning?
300
These fronts move quickly and bring heavy rain, thunderstorms, or snow.
What is a cold front?
300
A tornado is a small spinning column of air that has high wind speeds and low central pressure, it also touches the ground.
What is true?
300
The condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
400
These clouds cover large portions of the sky and often black out the sun.
What Are stratus clouds?
400
Also called typhoons and cyclones.
What are hurricanes?
400
This usually brings many days of clouds and wet weather.
What is a stationary front?
400
Hail forms in stratus.
What is false?
400
Areas that have high pressure.
What are anticyclones?
500
Thin feathery light clouds that form at high altitudes.
What are cirrus clouds?
500
Small intense weather systems that produce strong winds, heavy rain, lighting, and thunder.
What Are thunderstorms?
500
When a warm air mass is caught between two cold air masses.
What is an occluded front?
500
When water vapor changes from a gas to a liquid it is called evaporation.
What is false?
500
This is why the sky is blue.
What is blue has a shorter wavelength than red.
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