When severe weather conditions already exist, a(n)--------is issued.
What is warning
100
High, thin, white, feathery clouds containing ice crystals are usually associated with fair weather, but they can also indicate approaching storms, whats the cloud?
What is cirrus clouds?
100
What is the vocabulary word? average weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
What is climate?
100
There is little wind in the doldrums because the air what
What is rises
100
What is caused by the Earth's rotation
What is coriolis effect
200
What can be produced by thunderstorms?
What is tornadoes
200
Low, layered gray clouds that produce light precipitation are the what clouds?
What is stratos?
200
What is the vocabulary word? state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place
What is weather?
200
Why are sea and land breezes caused
What is solar radiation warms the land more than the water
200
What is the layer of the atmosphere nearest to Earth's surface
What is the troposhere
300
What forms when raindrops pass through a layer of freezing air near Earth's surface, forming ice pellets.
What is hail
300
Masses of puffy, white clouds, often with flat bases, that form when air currents rise are called?
What is cumulus?
300
What is the vocabulary word? the transfer of energy in the form of rays or waves
What is radiation
300
Water can form on grass in the early morning when the air is clear because
What is air near the ground cools to its dew point, water vapor condenses and forms dew
300
In general, atmospheric pressssure is greatest near Earth's surface and -as you move upward away from sea level
What is decreases
400
What forms when the air temperature is below freezing and water vapor changes directly to solid?
What is snow?
400
Reflection and absorption by the atmosphere prevent some- from reaching Earth's surface
What is heat
400
What is the vocabulary word? the transfer of heat by the flow of a heated material
What is convection?
400
What kind of weather does areas of low pressure have?
What is cloudy weather
400
There are - molecules of air at high elevations, so air pressure is less
What is fewer
500
What third thing causes weather? air, water, and what
What is heat?
500
Violent storms generally form along what clouds?
What is cumulonimbus?
500
What is the vocabulary word? speed direction of a moving body
What is velocity?
500
What may be one cause of deforestation?
What is global warming
500
Chlorofluorocarbons may be harming the ozone layer by