Warming the Earth
This is the cause of all weather
The Sun
What causes the hailstones to go back into the clouds and create more layers of ice?
wind
A typical snowflake has how many points?
6
Wind is simply ___________ in motion.
air
How many types of clouds did we learn about?
4
Dark colored objects absorb more _____________ than light-colored objects.
Radiation or energy
What two weather categories in this topic fall first as raindrops from the clouds?
Sleet and Hailstones
What is snow formed out of? Be SPECIFIC...
Hint: 2 words
water vapor
When it comes to wind generation as an energy source (like windmills), what is so great about the supply?
It's unlimited!
Clouds form in the sky when warm air from close to the earth rises up into the sky where it _________ and condenses into rain clouds.
cools
The __________ of the sun's rays affects the intensity of radiation which is why we feel heat from the sun at noon is different than the heat we feel when the sun is low on the same day.
slant
If we cut sleet in half, we would see rings around the different layers of ice called cross sections. True or False?
False. Sleet starts as raindrops that freeze in the atmosphere and come down as a small bead of ice. They don't have layers like hailstones do.
dew
Write the words in the blanks IN ORDER....
_______ air weighs less than ________ air.
warm/hot and cool/cold
What is damp air filled with?
very very very tiny water droplets
The uneven heating of earth by the sun causes different _________________ from region to region
temperatures
What causes glaze to form into thicker layers?
As more RAIN falls, the glaze grows thicker and thicker.
What happens to the warm water vapor from one side when it interacts with the cold temperature around it?
forms frost
speed and direction
What are the 3 factors needed to create weather?
sun, water droplets, clouds
What is moved from warmer low altitudes to cooler high altitudes that causes clouds, showers, and thunderstorms to form and when this movies from warm equatorial regions to cool northern or southern regions causes these thunderstorms to move from place to place.
air
How could a community lose power because of glaze?
Glaze forms on electricity wires and gets heavy and thick, snaps the wires and interrupts power supply.
If there is a ____________ ____________, dew and first are not likely to form because the vapor will not be cooled by the earth to change form.
strong wind
Wind is produced by the ____________ heating of the earth's atmosphere.
uneven
Different types of clouds means that there will be different kinds of ____________.
weather