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The type of cloud that is shaped like a cotton ball
What is a Cumulus
The type of cloud that looks like whispy streamers
What is a cirrus cloud.
The type of cloud that greyish and covers the entire sky
What is stratus clouds.
The type of cloud that is a rain cloud.
What is a nimbus
The time it takes the earth to orbit around the sun.
What is a year.
The season that we have when the axis of the earth is tilted away from the sun.
The season that we have when the earth is tilted toward the sun.
what is summer.
The line or angle that the earth rotates at.
What is the axis.
The closer you are to these on the earth the more difference you see in daily light in the different seasons.
What is the poles.
What is the height above or below a fixed reference point. This is usually compared to sea level.
What is land elevation.
The locations on the earth are shown in these 2 ways. They are shown with these in degrees. They show us in coordinates where exactly someone is on the earth.
What is longitude and latitude.
These reflect heat back into space and depending on how many there are, tells us how much light and heat can reach the earth's surface.
What is cloud cover.
The earth's tilt determines these 4 what?
What are seasons.
Name the 4 seasons
What are winter, spring, summer and fall
The season that has the most amount of daylight per day.
What is summer.
These provide shade, rain, sleet and retain heat.
What are clouds.
This is how high you are compared to sea level
What is altitude.
What is temperature.
How much water vapor is in the air.
What is moisture or humidity or water vapor.
This is the force that air molecules push against everything on the earth.
What is air pressure.
This is the type of air pressure that brings warm, dry air.
What is high air pressure.
This kind of air pressure brings rain and moisture.
What is low pressure.
What is rain, snow, sleet and hail.
The process of snow and ice turning into water vapor in the air without first melting into water.
What is sublimation.
The process of water collecting in rivers, lakes, streams, oceans and other bodies of water.
What is accumulation.