Water Cycle
The process of liquid water turning into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
The type of precipitation that falls as a crystalized solid, when the temperature is below freezing from the cloud, all the way to the ground.
What is snow?
An instrument used to measure the air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
What is low air pressure?
Severe weather that is similar to a thunderstorm, but is cold enough to produce snow instead of rain.
What is a blizzard?
Rivers, lakes, oceans, ponds, or any body of water.
What are example of accumulation or collection?
The type of precipitation that melts and refreezes as it falls from the sky, hitting the ground as a tiny ice pellet.
What is sleet?
This type of weather instrument goes into the atmosphere to collect data, and then brought back to the ground.
What is a weather balloon?
The only weather front that causes severe weather.
The most common type of severe weather that occurs in Florida.
What are thunderstorms?
The formation of clouds, due to water vapor cooling in the atmosphere.
What is condensation?
The precipitation that falls through the air as a liquid, but turns to ice upon contact with a cold surface, such as the ground, tree branches, or vehicles.
What is freezing rain?
This weather tool measures the amount of precipitation that has fallen.
What is a rain gauge?
A weather front between two air masses, one warm and one cooler, that are not moving, but sitting next to each other, so that one does not overpower the other.
What is a stationary front?
A type of severe weather that can be responsible for the rapid spread of wildfires.
What is a drought?
The five types of precipitation.
What are rain, snow, sleet, hail, and freezing rain?
The types of precipitation that could be present in a Florida summer.
What are rain and hail?
A weather tool that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This is when an area has cooler temperatures, and clear skies without many clouds or precipitation.
What is a high pressure system?
The number of categories in which a hurricane can be classified, based on its wind speed.
What is 5?
When water evaporates directly from a plant.
What is transpiration?
The force that causes hail to be repeatedly lifted back up into a storm cloud.
What is updraft?
These are the two weather instruments that measure qualities of wind.
What are anemometer and wind vane (or weather vane)?
A weather front that involves three air masses--two cold and one warm. One cold air mass catches up to the others from behind, and pushes the warm air mass up to create clouds and potential rain or snow.
The hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?