Any form of water particles that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground. (Ex: rain, sleet, snow, hail.)
What is precipitation?
100
A very large, swirling storm with very low pressure at the center.
What is a hurricane?
100
A cloud that forms in a blanket-like layer.
What is a stratus cloud?
100
Air that moves horizontally.
What is wind?
100
A large region of the atmosphere where the air has similar properties throughout.
What is an air mass?
200
The slow changing of a liquid into a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
A violent, whirling wind that moves across the ground in a narrow path.
What is a tornado?
200
A puffy cloud that appears to rise up from a flat bottom.
What is a cumulus cloud?
200
Unequal heating and cooling of the air often makes a pattern of rising air, sinking air, and winds.
What is a convection cell?
200
A narrow boundary between air masses with different temperatures.
What is a front?
300
The changing of a gas into a liquid.
What is condensation?
300
A storm that produces lightning.
What is a thunderstorm?
300
A high-altitude cloud with a feather-like shape, made of ice crystals.
What is a cirrus cloud?
300
A wind that blows from the sea toward the land.
What is a sea breeze?
300
Cold air moves in under a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
400
The loss of water through a plant's leaves.
What is transpiration?
400
Thunderstorms can cause electric sparks called ...
What is lightning?
400
These clouds bring thunderstorms and develop upward.
What is cumulonimbus?
400
A wind that blows from land toward the water.
What is land breeze?
400
Warm air moves in over a cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
500
The continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and the air, changing from liquid to gas to liquid.
What is the water cycle?
500
A great rise of the sea along a shore caused by low air pressure.
What is a storm surge?
500
A cloud at ground level.
What is fog?
500
No matter which way the wind blows, it will curve to the right in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, the wind curves to the left. This effect is known as the ...