clouds
Sun and Air
sun and air 2
precipitation
Miscellaneous
100
puffy bulgy clouds belong to this family of clouds
What is cumulus?
100
The basic cause of all weather
What is the sun?
100
The air we live in receives most of its warmth from this
What is the ground?
100
an ice crystal in a cloud becomes too heavy, falls, melts, and lands on the earth as liquid water
What is rain?
100
Thunderhead clouds are another name for this type of cloud
What is cumulonimbus
200
layers of clouds belong to this family
What is stratus?
200
scientists who study the weather
What is a meteorologist?
200
the amount of water vapor that the air can hold at a given temperature
What is relative humidity?
200
a small piece of ice is tossed up and down inside a cloud, forming several layers of ice, until it is too heavy and falls to earth
What is hail?
200
a term used to describe a cloud from which rain is falling
What is nimbus?
300
wispy, curly clouds very high in the atmosphere belong to this cloud family
What is cirrus?
300
Different seasons are caused by the tilt of earth's this
What is axis?
300
the lowest possible temperature at which air is able to hold all of its water vapor
What is dew point?
300
falling ice crystals melt slightly, stick and freeze together into snowflakes
What is wet snow?
300
this type of storm packs a the most destructive power into the smallest space
What is a tornado?
400
sheets of clouds that often produce rain
What is stratus?
400
differences in this cause wind on the earth
What is temperature?
400
the percent of humidity in which air is saturated
What is 100%
400
falling ice crystals melt, hit the earth as liquid rain, but refreeze as soon as they land
What is freezing rain?
400
the rapid expansion of superheated air causes shock waves that we hear as this
What is thunder?
500
clouds made of very small ice crystals
What is cirrus?
500
Miles per hour the earth's surface spins
What is 1,000?
500
water vapor that condenses and forms frozen water on the ground
What is frost?
500
falling ice crystals melt into raindrops, then refreeze and land on earth as tiny pieces of ice
What is sleet?
500
if a tornado has been spotted, meteorologists issue a tornado _______________________
What is a warning?
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