Show:
The Water Cycle
Fronts
Clouds
Storms and Hurricanes
Vocabulary
100
True or False. Condensation is when water vapor cools and changes from a gas to a liquid.
What is true
100
Cold fronts move _______ and bring thunderstorms! heavy rain! or snow
What is quickly
100
What is this object. It is a collection of small water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air.
What is clouds
100
Lightning can happen between ____ clouds.
What is two
100
____________ is an electric discharge that occurs between a positively charged area and a negatively charged area.
What is lightning
200
True or False. Precipitation is where water evaporates into a gas.
What is False
200
_______ form where a warm air moves over cold dense air.
What is warm fronts
200
What are puffy white clouds that tend to have flat bottoms.
What is cumulus clouds
200
________ thunderstorms can produce one or more of the following conditions; high winds, flash floods, and tornadoes.
What is severe
200
A ___________ is a small spinning column of air that had high wind speeds and low central pressure and that touches the ground.
What is tornado
300
True or False. Runoff is the collection of condensation.
What is True
300
__________ form when a warm air mass is caught between two colder air masses.
What is occluded fronts
300
What clouds cover large portions of the sky and form many layers.
What is stratus clouds
300
Thunderstorms can occur along _____ fronts! and can develop in other places as well.
What is cold
300
What is a large rotating weather system that has high wind speeds.
What is hurricane
400
True or False. Evaporation is when water in the form of a gas changes into a liquid.
What is False.
400
_____ fronts generally brings drizzly rain and are followed by clear and warm weather.
What is warm
400
Which type of clouds indicate good weather?
What is cumulus clouds
400
________ are areas where air masses come together, or converge and rise.
What is cyclones
400
______ ________ is where cold air moves under warm air , which is less dense and pushes the warm air up.
What is cold front
500
What are the 4 parts of the water cycle?
What is evaporation, precipitation, condensation, and runoff.
500
What air mass moves under and pushes up the warm air mass.
What is coldest air mass
500
Which clouds are thin, feathery, white clouds at high altitudes?
What is cirrus clouds
500
_______ are the most powerful storms on earth.
What is hurricanes
500
_______ is the condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is weather