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Clouds
Global Winds
Air Masses
Measuring Weather
Storms (these are worth double)
100
What are cumulus clouds?
These clouds are common and are mostly seen everyday.
100

Which way to easterlies move?

East to West
100

What are the four major types of air masses?

Maritime Tropical, Continental Tropical, Maritime Polar, and Continental Polar.

100

Air pressure

Barometer

100
These storms begin over warm water as a low pressure area.
What is a hurricane?
200
What are nimbostratus clouds?
These clouds produce rain or snow.
200

Which ways to trade winds move?

East to West

200

What do air masses cause when they collide with each other?

They form four types of fronts and produce weather.

200

Wind direction

Wind vane

200
This is also called a typhoon or cyclone.
What is a hurricane?
300

What are cumulonimbus clouds?

These clouds produce thuderstorms.

300

Which way to Westerlies move?

West to East

300

Which way do high and low pressure systems move? 

(counterclockwise vs clockwise - which is which?)

High pressure moves clockwise and low pressure moves counterclockwise.

300
What is a meteorologist?
These people predict weather on TV.
300
When air cools below 0ºC this happens
What is snowfall?
400

What are cirrus clouds?

These clouds are thin and wispy and are made out of ice crystals

400

All winds move towards the ______.

Equator

400

What are air masses?

Large body of air with same temperature and humidity.

400

Temperature

Thermometer

400
This forms within large cumulonimbus clouds
What is a tornado?
500

What are alto clouds?

These clouds are mid level.

500

What is used to measure wind speed?

An anemometer

500

What are fronts?

Where two air masses meet

500

Humidity

Hygrometer

500
During a thunderstorm, areas of positive and negative electrical charges built up in storm clouds causing what.
What is lightning?