Precipitation
What is rain?
Liquid water falling from the atmosphere in drops when water vapor in clouds condense and droplets become too heavy to stay
What are convection clouds?
Clouds that form when warm, moist air rises, cools, and condenses.
What is cohesion?
when same substances are attracted to each other and stick together
What is temperature?
True or false: a thermometer measures wind speed.
False
What is snow?
A precipitation in the form of small, white ice crystals
What is a cumulus cloud?
Fluffy, white clouds with a flat base, typically seen on sunny days
What is wind?
Air that is moving, caused by the suns heating the Earth's surface unevenly.
What is adhesion?
When two different kinds of materials or surfaces stick together
True or false: A rainbow appears because light bends in water droplets.
True
What is sleet?
Rain that freezes or partially freezes as it falls creating ice pellets
What is a stratus cloud?
Gray clouds that cover the sky like a blanket
What is fog?
A weather condition where tiny water droplets form a thick, ground-level cloud that reduces visibility.
Is the Winter Solstice the longest or shortest day of the year?
Shortest!
What weather feature guided the Israelites by day in the wilderness in the book of Exodus?
a cloud!
What is hail?
Solid ice that forms into balls or pieces known as hailstones
What is a cirrus cloud?
Thin, wispy clouds high in the sky
What does contract mean?
To become smaller
What's the difference between climate and weather?
Climate is the conditions over a long period of time, while weather changes day-to-day.
Weather is mentioned over 100 times in the Bible. True or False?
true-- approximately 1,400 times!
True or false: All precipitation comes from clouds.
What is a nimbus cloud?
a dark, rain-producing cloud
What is turbopause?
An invisible boundary high up in Earth's atmosphere above the ground.
What is the Heterosphere?
The upper layer of Earth's atmosphere where gases are not evenly mixed
Out of the 10 plagues, which ones had to do with the weather?
1- hail!
(If you said two and counted darkness, I'll take it!)