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Water Cycle
Water Processes
Clouds
Air Masses and Fronts
Extreme Weather
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Solid, liquid, and gas.
What are the states that water changes between in the water cycle?
100
Process by which water vapor forms from snow and ice.
What is sublimation?
100
These clouds are the most common high cloud that are composed mostly of ice. They often indicate fair weather.
What are Cirrus clouds?
100
Large clumps of air that move across continents and around the Earth while bringing weather changes.
What is an air mass?
100
Characterized by thunder and lightning and associated with cumulonimbus clouds.
What is a thunderstorm?
200
The process by which water vapor gets into the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
200
Process of water vapor evaporating from plants.
What is transpiration?
200
These clouds are low, gray, and lumpy. Light precipitation occurs with these clouds.
What are Stratocumulus clouds?
200
This type of air is what a tropical air mass brings.
What is warm air?
200
A rotating column of air that comes into contact with both the Earth's surface and a cumulonimbus cloud; also causes significant damage.
What is a tornado?
300
The process by which water vapor rises up in the atmosphere and then cools, which forms tiny water droplets.
What is condensation?
300
Water droplets make up these.
What are clouds?
300
These low clouds are gray and can often cover the entire sky; sometimes they look like fog that hasn't covered the ground.
What are Stratus clouds?
300
This type of air is what a polar air mass brings.
What is cold air?
300
Rotating storm system with a low-pressure center that forms over bodies of warm water.
What is a hurricane?
400
Rain, snow, and sleet are examples of this.
What is precipitation?
400
Evaporation turns the water that is at the top of oceans, rivers, and lakes into this in the atmosphere, while using the energy from the Sun.
What is water vapor?
400
These fluffy white or light gray clouds look like cotton balls. They can be associated with good or bad weather.
What are Cumulus clouds?
400
When two masses come together, they form this.
What is a front?
400
A severe snowstorm.
What is a blizzard?
500
Water vapor is this state of matter in the water cycle.
What is a gas?
500
The process of water entering the soil.
What is infiltration?
500
"Thunderstorm clouds" associated with heavy snow, rain, lightning, hail, and tornadoes.
What are Cumulonimbus clouds?
500
When cold air catches up to warmer air and pushes it up and away, this type of front is formed.
What is a cold front?
500
A straight-line wind storm associated with severe thunderstorms.
What is a derecho?