Clouds
Clusters of water or ice droplets suspended in air
What are clouds?
Someone who studies weather
Who are meteorologists?
Name 4 types of precipitation
What are sleet, snow, hail, and rain?
Name the 3 parts of the water cycle
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
The effect that causes winds
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The thing created from cumulus clouds
What is precipitation?
The type of cycle caused by weather
What is the water cycle?
Natural occurrence snow is associated with
What is a cold front?
Something that causes evaporation
What is solar radiation?
Name 2 types of wind
What are global and local winds?
Where Cumulus clouds form
What is the troposphere?
A measure of how far you can see in certain weather conditions
What is visibility?
What happens before precipitation
What is condensation?
The process that affects humidity and causes water to dissipate
What is evaporation?
Low winds that travel 80 to 140 mph
What are jet streams?
The affect of clouds blocking solar radiation
What is lower temperature?
The measure of how hot or cold something is
What is the temperature?
The process of rain becoming snow or sleet
What is freezing?
Condensation creates 2 things that affect visibility
What are clouds and fog?
The following are 3 types of what: Polar Easterlies, Prevailing Westerlies, Tropical Easterlies
What are global winds?
As clouds form, 2 properties change
What are pressure, and temperature
The type of weather created by low pressure and high humidity
What is a thunderstorm?
The kind of weather that creates cold air and snow
What is low temperature weather?
Saturated air from condensation affects this
What is air pressure?
Describing a factor wind
What is the direction wind comes from?