Water Cycle
Clouds
Precipitation
Stormy Weather
Miscellaneous
100
The 4 steps of the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
This type of precipitation freezes once it touches Earth's surface.
What is freezing rain?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house
What is the basement?
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
Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface
What is precipitation?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200
This happens to the temperature as you go higher in elevation
What is the temperature decreases?
300
The percentage of water vapor that is actually in the air compared to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a particular temperature
What is relative 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
The most common type of precipitation
What is rain?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
When planes "burn" dust particles into the sky to increase rainfall
What is cloud seeding?
400
The two factors required for condensation to occur
What are the cooling of air and the presence of particles in the air?
400
Cloud that forms at or near the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400
The reason hailstones grow so large
What is they are repeatedly tossed up and down in the cloud until they become so heavy that they fall to the ground?
400
The temperature ocean water needs to reach for enough evaporation to occur in a hurricane.
What is a 80 degrees Fahrenheit?
400
A small area with climate conditions that differ from those directly around it
What is a microclimate? (The average climate at our school is somewhat different to that of someone who lives at the beach)
500
The continuous movement of water between the atmosphere and Earth's surface
What is the water cycle?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The 5 types of precipitation
What are rain, hail, snow, sleet, and freezing rain?
500
The speed a storm must reach for it to be considered a hurricane.
What is 119km/hr (or 74mph)?
500
Scale used to rate the damage and speed of tornadoes
What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?
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