Water Cycle
This is natures way of recycling water.
What is the Water Cycle
The first layer of the atmosphere and the layer in which life is located.
What is the Troposphere
The state of the air at a certain time and place.
Weather
This is the most common type of storm.
What is a thunderstorm
When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.
What is Chaos
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation
This is the final layer of the atmosphere and it extends into space.
What is the Thermosphere or Exosphere
Any ground that remains completely frozen—32°F (0°C) or colder—for at least two years straight.
What is permafrost
This is a spinning cloud in the shape of a funnel.
What is a tornado
This is used to indicate that a hazardous weather or hydrologic event may develop.
What is an Outlook
Amount of water vapor in the air.
What is Humidity
This part of the atmosphere is located within another layer of the atmosphere. It allows for radio waves to be transmitted.
What is the Ionosphere
What is a wind vane
This is a common name for an overflow of water during heavy rainfall.
What is a flood
This is issued when a hazardous weather or hydrologic event is occurring, imminent or likely.
What is a Weather Warning
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets.
What is condensation
This layer of the atmosphere is the one where meteors are burned up upon entry.
What is the Mesosphere
This refers to the periodic cooling of ocean surface temperatures in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific.
What is La Nina
A system producing severe thunderstorms and featuring rotating winds sustained by a prolonged updraft that may result in hail or tornadoes.
What is a supercell
An imaginary line or a line on a chart connecting the places of equal change of atmospheric pressure within a specified time.
What is an Isallobar
This is water that is found underground.
What is groundwater
O3
A technologically advanced information processing, display, and telecommunications system that is the cornerstone of the National Weather Service modernization and restructuring.
What is AWIPS
A large, circular, long-lived cluster of showers and thunderstorms identified by satellite.
What is a Mesoscale Convective Complex
When two low-pressure systems become cut off from the main flow of the jet stream, sandwiching a high-pressure system between them.
What is an Omega High