Precipitation
Clouds
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
Hurricanes
100

What is a form of precipitation made of many ice crystals that fall as snowflakes?

what is snow

100

Clouds formed by slow air rising. In latin means layer

What is a stratus cloud


100

Funnel cloud that comes down out of a storm cloud and actually makes contact with the ground. 

What is a tornado

100

The edge of a hurricane's eye.

What is wall

200
A snow type that occurs when the air is just below freezing and is good packing snow. 

What is wet snow

200

Clouds that form by rapidly rising air, translates to "heap".

What is cumulus
200

 a scale used to rate the strength of a tornado

what is a fujita scale

200

a storm that continues to grow and gain strength.

what is a tropical storm

300
This begins as rain but becomes ice as it falls to the ground. 

what is sleet

300

When something changes back to a liquid

What is condense

300

rising warm air is called

What is Convection

300

A term used for all three types of storms ( hurricane, cyclone, and typhoons.

What is a tropical cyclone

400

Warm air slowly rises as the cooler air sinks, causing condensation to take place. 

What is a warm front

400

This is the number of cloud types we have.

What is 10

400

Weather predicting tool that allows the inside of a storm to be seen through computer images.

What is doppler radar

400

Same as a hurricane but these storms occur in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean

What is a cyclone

500

Water that falls to the Earth in the form of rain, sleet, hail, snow, or freezing rain is called.

what is precipitation

500

These clouds are delicate, look like hair, at sunset they may take on the color of the sunset.

What is a cirrus cloud. 
500

The energy in these large clouds can cause lighting, thunder, hail and tornadoes.

What is a cumulonimbus cloud

500

Hurricanes are more likely to take place during these seasons. 

What is summer and fall.