The Water Cycle
Clouds
Fronts
Thunderstorms and Lightning
Extreme Weather
100
The order of the water cycle is.....
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff?
100
A cloud is a collection of small ______ ________ or ice crystals suspended in the air.
What is water droplets?
100
Which front forms when cold air moves under warm air?
What is a cold front?
100
Thunderstorms are small intense _________ __________ that produce strong winds! heavy rain! lightning, and thunder.
What are weather systems?
100
What do you call areas where air masses come together and rise?
What are cyclones?
200
When water vapor cools and changes from a gas to a liquid it is called what?
What is condensation?
200
These clouds indicate fair weather, but when they get larger they form thunderstorms.
What are cumulus clouds?
200
What front has large amounts of rain and snow?
What is an occluded front?
200
Thunderstorms can occur along what?
What are cold fronts?
200
What are areas that have high pressure?
What are anticyclones?
300
Precipitation that is usually water flows across land and collects in other bodies of water is called what?
What is runoff?
300
Fog is a type of this cloud.
What is a stratus cloud?
300
Which front forms when warm air moves over cold, denser air?
What is a warm front?
300
Name one thing severe thunderstorms can produce.
What is high winds, hail, flash floods, and tonadoes?
300
A small spinning column of air that has high wind speeds and low central pressure that touches the ground is a what?
What is a tornado?
400
Thin, wispy, feathery, white clouds that are at high altitudes.
What is a cirrus cloud?
400
What is an electric discharge that occurs between a positively charged area and a negatively charged area?
What is lightning?
400
A hurricane is a large rotating tropical weather system that has high wind speeds of at least how many km/h?
What is 120 km/h?
500
____________ is when rain, snow, or hail falls from the clouds onto the Earth.
What is precipitation?
500
Hail forms in this type of cloud.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
What are the four types of fronts?
What are cold, warm, occluded, and stationary fronts?
500
Can lightning happen between a cloud and the sun?
What is no?
500
How many mph is an F-2 on the Fujita Scale?
What is 111-135 mph?
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