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Precipitation & Clouds
Weather
Water Cycle
Weather Istruments
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These types of cloud are found at high altitudes, look wispy or feathery, are made of ice crystals and usually indicate fair or nice weather.
What is cirrus?
100
Liquid precipitation
What is rain?
100
The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.
What is humidity?
100
The source of energy for the water cycle.
What is the sun?
100
Measures humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
200
These types of clouds look like puffy cotton balls. Generally, indicate fair or nice weather. Can form into rain clouds with enough condensation.
What is cumulus?
200
A type of solid precipitation that is solid from the cloud to the ground. Has a crystalline structure.
What is snow?
200
Atmospheric conditions as a given place and time.
What is weather?
200
Most of this process takes places over the oceans of the Earth. This process occurs at the surface of a liquid
What is evaporation?
200
Measures wind direction.
What is a weathervane or a wind vane?
300
These clouds from in flat layers and indicate steady, light rain.
What is the stratus?
300
A type of solid precipitation that forms when liquid precipitation refreezes before hitting the ground.
What is sleet?
300
The horizontal movement of air from higher pressure to lower pressure.
What is wind?
300
The process where a gas returns to liquid state. Can occur through removal of heat energy.
What is condensation?
300
Measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
400
This type of precipitation is always formed in thunderstorms and almost always in warm weather.
What is hail?
400
This solid precipitation forms as a result of thunderstorms and the rapid vertical movement of air. It normally occurs in warm weather.
What is hail?
400
Average conditions of a long period of time. Usually over thirty years. Most often measured in average temperature and average precipitation.
What is climate?
400
Very small particles of water or ice.
What do clouds consist of?
400
Measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
500
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What is Clouds?
500
This towering cloud produces thunderstorms. It can reach heights of 50,000 feet. Sometimes the tops look like an anvil head.
What is cumulonimbus?
500
The weight of the atmosphere on objects below on the Earth's surface. Measured in pounds per square inch. If this is dropping, bad weather is indicated. If it is rising or high, fair weather is expected.
What is pressure or atmospheric pressure?
500
Water that is not absorbed into the ground.
What is runoff?
500
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?