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Sleet,snow, and hail
Clouds
Thunderstorms and Lightning
Big Storms
Fronts
100
How does sleet form?
What is when rain falls through a layer of freezing air.
100
When these clouds grow larger they form thunderstorms.
What is Cumulus Clouds
100
What is a thunderstorm?
What is a small intense weather system.
100
Hurricanes are the most powerful what on Earth?
What is storms.
100
What is relative humidity?
What is the ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a set temperature.
200
What is the process of snow forming?
What is when temperatures are so cold that water vapor changes directly to a solid and forms snow.
200
When do Cumulus Clouds form?
What is when warm air rises.
200
What kind of conditions can a thunderstorm produce.
What is strong winds, heavy rain, lightning, and thunder.
200
What are hurricanes called in the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean?
What is typhoons and cyclones.
200
When does stationary fronts form?
What is when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass.
300
What is the process of hail forming?
What is when up drafts of air in the clouds carry raindrops high in the clouds, the raindrops freeze and hail forms.
300
What are Cirrus Clouds?
What is thin, feathery, white clouds at high altitudes.
300
Where can lightning occur?
What is between two clouds, between the Earth and a cloud, or even between two parts of the same cloud.
300
What 4 conditions can severe thunderstorms produce?
What is high winds, hail, flash floods, and tornadoes.
300
When does occluded fronts form?
What is when a warm air mass is caught between two colder air masses.
400
What clouds does hail form in?
What is cumulonimbus clouds.
400
What clouds cover large portions of the sky and often block out the sun?
What is Stratus Clouds
400
Where do thunderstorms occur?
What is along cold fronts, and they can develop in other places as well.
400
What is a tornado?
What is a small spinning column of air that has wind speeds and low central pressure and that touches the ground.
400
Where does warm fronts form?
What is where warmer air moves over cold air.
500
What is sublimation?
What is when a gas turns into a solid or a solid turns into a gas. 4th stage of matter.
500
What are puffy white clouds that tend to have flat bottoms.
What is cumulus clouds.
500
What is lightning?
What is an electric discharge that occurs between a positively charged area, and a negatively charged area.
500
What is a hurricane
What is a large rotating tropical weather system that has winds at least 120 mph