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Clouds are formed during what stage of the water cycle?

Condensation

100

This weather tool measures the amount of heat in the air.

Thermometer

100

This type of front happens when a cold air mass quickly moves under a warm air mass bringing severe thunderstorms or even tornadoes.

 Cold front.

100

This stage of the water cycle happens when water is heated and turns into a gas.

Evaporation 

100

This global wind moves weather patterns from west to east in the United States.

Prevailing westerlies.

200

This type of cloud is big, dark, and usually brings thunderstorms/severe weather.

Cumulonimbus clouds 

200

This weather tool measures the humidity (how much water is in the air).

Hygrometer

200

These storms are formed off the coast of Africa and are powered by warm waters in the Atlantic Ocean. They travel on the same path as the Gulf Stream.

Hurricanes

200

What happens during accumulation?

Water gathers into oceans, lakes, and ponds.

200

What global wind blows high in the sky and separates cold and warm air masses in the US?

jet stream

300

These are big, white, puffy clouds that mean good weather.

Cumulus clouds 
300

What does a barometer measure?

This weather tool measures the air pressure to see if it is high or low.

300

This type of front brings rain or cloudy skies for up to a few days when a warm air mass slowly climbs over a cold air mass.

Warm front

300

During this stage plants sweat and release their water.

Transpiration.

300

This water current is very warm and causes hotter temperatures on the East Coast and stronger storms/hurricanes.

Gulf Stream

400

These clouds usually cover the sky like a blanket and bring rain/snow.

Stratus clouds

400

This weather tool tells how fast the wind is blowing.

Anemometer

400

(       ) pressure usually means bad weather, but 

(    ) pressure means good weather.

Low, high

400

What happens during runoff?

Water flows across the ground and into bodies of water.

400
This is the long term weather averages of an area usually collected over 10 or more years.

Climate

500

These clouds mean good weather, BUT they also mean the weather can change in 24-48 hours.

Cirrus clouds

500

What do weather vanes/wind vanes measure?



This weather tool tells which direction the wind is blowing.

500

This type of bad weather occurs when rapidly moving cold air creates a hole in a warm air mass and quickly funnels down to touch the ground.

Tornado

500

What are 3 types of precipitation?

Rain, snow, sleet, hail

500

Wind is caused by a difference in what two things?

Temperature and air pressure