When water rises from lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans and turns into water vapor
What is evaporation?
100
Air temperature
What is a thermometer?
100
All precipitation is measured with this
What is a rain gauge?
100
fair weather clouds, fluffy and white (like cauliflower)
What is cumulus?
100
a large area of air that has the same weather properties
What is an air mass?
200
When water vapor rises into a cooler part of the atmosphere, creating particles that form into clouds
What is condensation?
200
Humidity
What is a hygrometer?
200
liquid water that falls from clouds
What is rain?
200
dark clouds, foretell of bad weather
What is nimbus
200
boundary between 2 air masses
What is a front?
300
When clouds become too heavy, causing water to fall from them
What is precipitation?
300
Wind direction
What is a wind vane
300
solid water that falls from clouds
What is snow?
300
Layered clouds, low in the sky, like a blanket
What is stratus?
300
When warm air slides up and over cold air. Clouds and rain can occur
What is a warm front?
400
When rain soaks into the ground
What is groundwater?
400
Air pressure
What is a barometer?
400
frozen water that falls from clouds in a spherical (ball) shape
What is hail?
400
high in the sky, wispy, and curly
What is cirrus?
400
When cold air moves under warm air, causing it to rise quickly. Sometimes it causes thunderstorms.
What is a cold front?
500
When rain falls into a body of water
What is runoff?
500
Wind speed
What is an anemometer?
500
Frozen or solid water that falls through air above 32 degrees, and then through air that is less than 32 degrees, causing it to melt and refreeze before reaching Earth
What is sleet?
500
Clouds are contained within this. It has many layers and is made of mostly nitrogen and oxygen.
What is the atmosphere?
500
when two fronts are touching but neither is moving