Precipitation
What is this?
An ice crystal in a cloud becomes too heavy, falls, melts, and lands on the earth as liquid water.
Rain
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Wispy, curly clouds very high in the atmosphere belong to the ________ family.
cirrus, stratus, cumulus, nimbus
cirrus
True or False
The broad, flat top of a cumulonimbus cloud is called an anvil top?
True
The basic cause of all weather is the __________.
Sun
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Air is saturated when the humidity of the air is _______ percent.
100
What is this?
Falling ice crystals melt slightly, stick, and freeze together into snowflakes.
Wet snow
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Layers of flat clouds belong to the __________ family.
cirrus, stratus, cumulus, nimbus
stratus
True or false?
When opposite electrical charges build up in very tall clouds, hail is produced?
false, lighting
Water vapor that condenses to form liquid water on the ground is called __________.
dew
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The process in which water vapor leaves the air and changes into liquid water is called ___________.
condensation
What is this?
Falling ice crystals melt, hit the earth as liquid rain, but refreeze as soon as they land.
Freezing rain
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Puffy, bulgy clouds belong to the ________ family.
cirrus, stratus, cumulus, nimbus
cumulus
True or false? If false give the correct answer
The type of storm that packs the most destructive power into the smallest space is the hurricane.
False, tornado
The air that we live in receives most of its warmth from the ____________.
True or false. If false give the correct answer
Lighting bolts that do not come in contact with the ground but remain within the cloud are known as cloud lighting.
False, sheet lighting
Define the word "hail" by filling in the blanks.
A small piece of ______ is tossed up and down inside a ________, forming several layers of _________, until it is too heavy and falls to earth.
Ice, cloud, ice
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A term used to describe a cloud from which rain is falling is ________.
Nimbus
True or false? If false give the correct answer
if a tornado has been spotted, meteorologists issue a tornado watch.
False, warning
Water vapor that condenses and forms frozen water on the ground is called __________.
frost
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The amount the lowest possible temperature at which air is able to hold all of its water vapor is its _________.
dew point
Define the word "Sleet" by filling in the blank?
Falling ice crystals _______ into _________, then ________ and land on earth as tiny pieces of ________.
melt, raindrops, refreeze, ice
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"Thunderhead" is another name for a ____________ cloud.
Cumulonimbus
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The thin channel of charged air through which a lightning bolt can travel is the _____________.
Step leader
prevailing westerlies
In Texas the temperature is 80 degrees and relative humidity is 100%.
In Washington the temperature is 40 degrees and relative humidity is 100%
is the amount of water vapor in the air over Texas and the air over Washington the same?
The air over Texas contains more water vapor because the warmer the air is, the more water vapor it can hold. Relative humidity is the same percent because the air is holding the most water vapor it can hold.