Clouds
What are clouds?
Very small Liquid water droplets
Which is the most common type of cloud?
What is a cumulus cloud?
________ happens in the troposphere.
What is weather?
From Water to sky: is what process?
What is evaporation?
As an air parcel rises, what happens to the energy within the parcel?
Energy is transfered to the cooler surrounding air, until an equilibrium is reached.
A cloud that often looks like a big white feather in the sky, composed of fine ice crystals
What is a cirrus cloud?
List three types of clouds.
Cumulous, Cumulonimbus, alto cumulous, cirrocumulous
Stratus, altostratus, cirrostratus, nimbostratus
Cirrus
Fog (status)
Which atmosphere is closest to earth?
What is the troposphere?
Forms of Water falling from the sky...
What is precipitation?
an instrument for measuring temperature
What is a thermometer?
Cirrus Clouds are made of _____.
Weather happens in the ______.
What is the troposphere?
Where is the tropopause furthest from the surface of the Earth?
At the equator
Water vapor in the sky is cooled to do this process:
What is condensation?
- the movement of air from 1 place to another
What is wind?
The higher the _____ rises into the atmosphere, the higher the cloud.
What is an air parcel?
Which cloud can most likely produce thunderstorms?
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
A scientist that studies the weather?
What is the meteorlogist?
When the energy is being transferred out of the air parcel. What is happening to the temperature?
What is cooling/ colder?
We learned about two types of rain
Oragraphic, Frontal
100* if they say conventional rain
Describe how a cloud forms?
Temperature change (below dew point)
Lift
Condensation seed.
What factors would a storm have to be a severe one? Think about Galetown
What is really warm air, lots of surface water the air parcel needs to travel higher in the troposphere and wind?
The tallest of all clouds, often rising from the lower troposphere, to the tropopause. They are responsible for thunder, lightning and tornadoes.
Cumulonimbus Cloud
What type of frozen precipitation falls from Cumulonimbus clouds
What is hail?
What is the dew point?
The temperature at which water vapor can condense on to a condensation seed for a certain humidity and pressure.