Clouds
These clouds are whispy, high up in the air and filled with ice crystals.
What are cirrus clouds?
Measures the amount of precipitation, or rain.
What is a rain gauge?
During freezing temperatures, this precipitation hits a warm pocket, melts, and refreezes.
What is sleet?
The average temperature, humidity and precipitation of an area.
What is climate?
Different parts of the Earth have different climate zones because of -----
What is direct and indirect sunlight?
These are fair weather clouds and look like big cotton balls in the sky.
What are cumulous clouds?
This precipitation falls as water droplets when the temperature is above freezing.
What is rain?
If the pressure is dropping, you can expect this.
What is rain?
The regions closest to the north and south poles.
What are the polar zones?
These clouds cover the sky like a big blanket.
What are stratus clouds?
This precipitation falls as layered balls of ice.
What is hail?
The current temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, precipitation, and air pressure.
What is weather?
The region nearest the equator that gets the most sunlight.
What is the tropical zone?
If you see these clouds, you better take cover because a big thunderstorm is sure to come.
What are cumulonimbus clouds.
This precipitation falls when it is below freezing as ice crystals.
What is snow?
If the temperature of this place does not get too hot i the summer or too cold in the winter, it must be a .....
What is a coastal city?
These regions are located in the middle of the northern and southern hemispheres and get the most variety of weather.
What are the temperate zones?
This cloud is an example of floating condensation that hovers low to the ground.
What is fog?
Measures humidity in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
In order for layered balls of ice to form, you must have this.
What is a strong updraft?
If the temperature of this place gets extremely cold in the winter and extremely hot in the summer, it must be an .....
What is an inland city?
An area located in the tropical zone can expect to have what kind of climate?
What is hot and humid?