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Storms
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The condition of the of the atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is Weather?
100
How many types of fronts are there? Name them.
What is 4? Occluded, Cold, Warm, Stationary
100
What are the 4 types of clouds we learned about?
What is Cirrus, Cumullus, Stratus, and cumulonimbus
100
What are the four stations in the water cycle?
What is condensation, Precipitation, runoff (collection), evaporation?
100
What type of storms are small, intense weather systems that produce strong winds, heavy rain, lightning, and thunder?
What is Thunderstorms?
200
The ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a set temperature.
What is Relative humidity?
200
What type of front move quickly and bring thunderstorms, heavy rain, or snow?
What is a cold front?
200
What type of clouds form layers cover large portions of the sky which blocks the sun?
What is stratus clouds?
200
What are high pressure areas called and what are they?
What is A. anticyclones B. areas where air moves apart, diverges, and sinks
200
What do severe thunderstorms bring?
What is high winds hail flash floods tornadoes ect.
300
A collection of small water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air.
What is a Cloud?
300
What type of fronts bring drizzly rain and are followed by clear and warm weather?
What is a Warm front
300
What clouds are thin, feathery, white clouds at high altitudes and could bring thunderstorms?
What is Cirrus?
300
What type of precipitation falls from cumulonimbus clouds?
What is hail?
300
What is a small, spinning column of air that has high wind speeds and low central pressure and that touches the ground
What are tornados?
400
Water in solid or liquid form that falls from the air to earth.
What is Precipitation?
400
What type of front forms by a warm air mass being caught between two colder air masses?
What is an Occluded front?
400
What is a stratus cloud that forms near the ground?
What is fog?
400
What are areas that have lower pressure than the surrounding areas and where air mass and rise?
What is cyclones?
400
What are the wind speeds a F5 tornado could bring?
What is 200+
500
An electric discharge that occurs between a positively charged area and a negatively charged area.
What is Lightning
500
What type of front has a cold air mass and a warm air mass that do not have enough force to lift the warm air mass over the cold air mass
What is a stationary front?
500
What are Puffy, white clouds that have flat bottoms, indicate fair weather, and form when warm air rises?
What is cumulus clouds?
500
What is water that falls from the air to earth? Name the types of this thing.
What is precipitation? Rain, SLeet, Hail, Snow ect.
500
What is a large rotating tropical weather system that has wind speeds of at least 120 km per hour and are the most powerful storms on Earth?
What is a hurricane?
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