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Water Cycle Review
Masses and Fronts
Under Pressure
Stormy Weather
Storms & Safety
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100
A large body of air that has the same properties as Earth's surface over which it develops.
What is an air mass?
100
A front where cold air pushed warm air upward
What is a cold front?
100
A violent whirling wind that moves in a narrow path over land
What is a tornado?
100
How would you prepare for a blizzard?
buy food, ice, water, gasoline, generator
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
Forms where cold and warm air masses meet
What is a front?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
This results from the build up of positive and negative electrical charges in the clouds
What is lightning?
200
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building
What is the lowest level of the building?
300
Moisture condenses and falls to the ground it becomes this
What is precipitation?
300
The interaction of water, wind and air
What is weather?
300
When 2 cold air masses meet and the warm air gets pushed out
What is an occluded front?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
A word that describes the most serious case when a storm is coming
What is a warning?
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
A front when warm air pushes cold air out of the way 
What is a warm front?
400
High pressure usually means this type of weather
What is good/fair weather?
400
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400
This storm causes heavy snow and winds
What is a blizzard?
500
Weather over a long period of time
What is climate?
500
When warm air and cold air meet but they do not have enough energy to move one another, resulting in weather that could last for weeks
What is a stationary front?
500
Low pressure usually means this kind of weather
What is rain/snow/clouds?
500
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
500

This storm forms from when the air cools as it rises. Water vapor condenses and forms cumulus clouds. 

What is a thunderstorm?