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Water Cycle
Clouds
Air Masses
Thunderstorms/Tornadoes
Tropical Storms
100
The never ending process that recycles the Earth's water supply.
What is the Water Cycle?
100

Puffy clouds, look like cotton balls, and usually bring fair weather.

What are cumulus clouds?

100

Air masses formed over land

What are Continental Air Masses?

100
A funnel cloud that touches the ground.
What is a tornado?
100
The strongest storm found in the tropics, with heavy rain and winds of 75 mph or greater.
What is a hurricane?
200
The part of the water cycle that changes liquid water into a gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200

A thick blanket of clouds darkening and covering the whole sky. They usually bring rain or snow.

What are stratus clouds?

200

Air masses formed over the ocean

What are Maritime Air Masses?

200
A strong electrical discharge of positive and negative charges in the air.
What is lightning?
200
The center of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
300
The part of the water cycle that changes water vapor into liquid droplets forming a cloud.
What is condensation?
300
High wispy clouds made of tiny ice particles.
What are cirrus clouds?
300

When air masses meet/mix/collide they're called a...

What is a front?

300

A storm with HIGH wind speeds and A LOT of snow

What is a Winter Storm/Blizzard?

300

Where do Hurricanes first form?

What is the ocean?

400
The part of the water cycle where tiny drops of water collect into large enough droplets to fall to the ground as; rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
400
A cloud on the ground.
What is fog?
400

Cool, humid air masses that form over the icy cold North Atlantic Ocean.

What is Maritime Polar?

400
Balls of ice that fall from clouds during thunderstorms.
What is hail?
400

How long does the average hurricane last?

What is a week?

500

The part of the water cycle where plants "sweat" the water out

What is Transpiration?

500

Cumulonimbus clouds bring what type of weather?

What are thunderstorms?

500

Hot, Dry air masses that form mostly in summer over dry areas of northern Mexico

What is Continental Tropical?

500

The different types of storms in order from MOST dangerous to LEAST dangerous

Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Thunderstorms, Winter Storms

500

The flooded water caused by rising ocean water during a hurricane.

What is a storm surge?