Clouds
Study of Weather
Weather Conditions
Fun facts
Miscellaneous
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What is a Cirrus Cloud?
A cloud that his high, thin white streaks
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What is a Meteorologist?
A scientist who studies weather
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What is Fog?
Fog is a cloud the forms near the ground
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What covers 3/4 of the Earths surface?
Water
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Made up of a mixture of gasses
What is the Earths Atmosphere?
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what does a cumulus cloud look like
It is white and puffy
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What is a weather buoy used for?
To collect weather data at sea
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What is a cold front?
A cold front is when cold air bumps into warm air and storms result
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What provides the energy for the water cycle?
The Sun
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What is a Glacier?
A large Mass of Ice
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Name 3 types of clouds
Cumulus, Cirrus and Stratus
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This device is a radar tower used to observe storm clouds
What is Doppler
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What are Hail, sleet and rain made up of?
Layers of ice, thin ice, and melted ice
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This is an underground water reservoirs made of rock
What is an Aquifier
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How cool or warm the air is
What is Air Temperature?
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How do clouds form?
Clouds form as water vapor cools and condenses
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These 2 devises are used to collect data from high above the earths surface
What are weather balloons and weather satellites
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When does a warm front occur?
When Warm air moves over top of cold air pushing it closer to earth and rain or snow usually occur
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This type of cloud is low and dark
What is a Stratus cloud
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What is precipitation?
Water that falls to the earth
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What are clouds made up of?
Water and/or ice
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How is the Earths Atmosphere beneficial?
It protects us from the suns harmful rays and from space debris
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What is a Weather Front?
Where weather changes take place.
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These 2 places on Earth receive the LEAST amount of Sun
What are the Poles (N & S)
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What does Air Pressure do?
Air pressure brings a change in weather.
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