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Weather
Clouds 1
Clouds 2
Thermal Energy
Miscellaneous
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The condition of the earth's atmosphere at any particular time.
What is weather?
100
The prefix given to a cloud found at a higher altitude than what is typical for other members of its group.
What is "alto"?
100
The prefix or suffix added if a cloud is dark in color.
What is nimbo or nimbus?
100

What scientists refer to as light that comes from the sun to earth.

What is insolation?

100
An imaginary line that is the reference line of longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
200
The steady condition that prevails day in and day out in a particular region of creation.
What is climate?
200
The Latin word "cumulus" means this.
What is "pile"?
200
This Latin word means "wisp" or "curl".
What is cirrus?
200
Insolation is an abbreviation for this.
What is incoming solar radiation?
200

An air mass that is wet and cold

What is a maritime polar air mass?

300
The earth receives its thermal energy from this.
What is the sun?
300

Cirrus clouds are made up of these.

What are ice crystals?

300
These clouds typically form low in the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
300
When the earth is the farthest it will ever be from the sun.
What is aphelion?
300

A warm and dry air mass

What is a tropical continental air mass?


400

DAILY DOUBLE!!!  Water vapor in the atmosphere exists as one of these two things.

What is humidity and clouds?

400
Due to a lot of water in warm air, stratus clouds can easily turn into these dark, rain-producing clouds.
What are nimbostratus clouds.
400
These clouds are generally formed in mountainous regions.
What are lenticular clouds?
400

DAILY DOUBLE!! The earth travels around the sun in a slight oval, also known as this.

What is an ellipse?

400
As cold air sinks it creates a buildup of air called this.
What is a "high"?
500

These are reversed between the Northern and Southern hemispheres due to the axial tilt of the earth.

What are seasons?

500
Daily Double!!! These clouds have the feathery appearance of cirrus clouds, but they are not blown apart by the wind. Instead, they form thin puffs.
What are cirrocumulus clouds?
500

DAILY DOUBLE!! These clouds have the feathery appearance of cirrus clouds, but they form flat layers.

What are cirrostratus clouds?

500

The two factors that affect the amount of insolation the earth receives.

What are the earth's distance from the sun and the axial tilt?

500

DAILY DOUBLE!!  A weather front where a cold air mass & a warm air mass collide b/c the cold air mass travels faster than the warm air mass & overtakes it & collides with it.

What is an Occluded front?