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100
A person that studies the weather forecast.
What is a meterologist?
100
This is a instrument that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
This when an area does not get rain for a long period time.
What is a drought?
100

Name the 4 main parts of the Water Cycle.

What are precipitation, condensation,evaporation and collection?

100
Fluffy, mid-level clouds that develop in towering shapes and signal fair weather. They look like cotton balls.
What are cumulus clouds?
200

A prediction made by the meterologist is called _______. 

What is the forecast?

200

This is a weather tool that measures the direction the wind is blowing.

What is a wind vane or weather vane?

200
This is what happens when a area gets to much rain.
What is a flood?
200

This is what happens when water vapor is cooled in the atmosphere. 

Clouds are formed. 

200
________ are low-lying, gray and sheetlike clouds that often produce drizzle. They are the lowest clouds in the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
300
The measurement of how hot or cold something is.
What is the temperature?
300
_________ measures the amount of rain that falls.
What is a rain gauge?
300
____________ are winter storms with strong winds, low temperatures and snow.
What are blizzards?
300
Rain, snow, sleet and hail are all types of.
What is precipitation?
300
___________ are thin, wispy clouds that form high in the atmosphere as their water vapor freezes into ice crystals. They are the highest clouds in the sky.
What are cirrus clouds?
400

H and L mean these things on a weather map. 

What is high pressure and low pressure? 

400
If the wind vane is pointing the direction of the "S" that means the wind is blowing _______.
What is South?
400
This a wild weather storm that occurs over oceans. This storm also produces strong winds, heavy rain and large, powerful waves.
What is a hurricane?
400
____________ is the process in which liquid water becomes vapor (gas). The heat from the sun causes water to disappear.
What is evaporation?
400

What type of tall cloud brings intense thunderstorms that usually last less than an hour? 

What is a cumulonimbus cloud?

500

This is where weather happens. 

What is the atmosphere. 

500

These red bumps on a weather map mean this______

Warm Front

500
This storm starts to form over dry land from a spinning column of wind into a funnel cloud. This storm has very strong winds and along a narrow path.
What is a tornado?
500

______________ is the process in which rain, snow melt, or other water flows in streams, rivers, drains, or sewers.

What is collection or run off? 

500
A ___________ is a large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals. The droplets are so small and light that they can float in the air.
What is a cloud?
600

This is the word for weather over time in a specific geographic region. 

What is climate? 

600

An H on a weather map means this. 

(Describe it for an extra 200 points!) 

What is a high-pressure system? 

A high pressure system usually brings calm skies, and cool dry air. 

600

This type of precipitation can occur in warm climates from heavy tropical storms known as hurricanes. 

What is hail?

600

Approximately this percent of water on the earth is freshwater. 

What is 3%?