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Heat
Precipitation
Clouds
Winds
Water Cycle
100
The direct transfer of electromagnetic waves
What is radiation
100
The most common form of precipitation.
What is rain
100
Clouds that look like fluffy piles of cotton.
What is cumulus clouds
100
This type of wind is caused by unequal heating of Earth's surface within a small area.
What is local winds
100
The process by which water molecules in liquid water escape into the air as vapor.
What is evaporation
200
The transfer of heat by direct contact.
What is conduction
200
When rain freezes when it hits a cold surface like a sidewalk.
What is freezing rain.
200
High clouds that are mainly composed of ice crystals
What is cirrus clouds
200
Sea and land breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons.
What are Monsoons
200
Water that flows off the surface of the land after a rain event.
What is runoff
300
The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid
What is convection
300
Round pellets of ice larger than 5 mm.
What is hail
300
This is what forms when water vapor condenses out of the air.
What is a cloud
300
This is what usually happens to warm air at the equator
What is, it rises
300
Water that soaks into the soil and is stored there.
What is ground water.
400
The average amount of energy of motion of each molecule of a substance
What is temperature
400
Sleet is made up of ice pellets smaller than this.
What is 5 millimeters
400
Clouds that form in flat layers.
What is a stratus
400
These are the three major global wind belts of Earth
What are Polar Easterlies, Prevailing Westerlies, and Trade Winds
400
Long periods of unusually dry weather.
What is drought.
500
Most of the heating of the troposphere is caused by this type of heat transfer.
What is convection
500
These are the five common types of precipitation.
What is rain, sleet, hail, freezing rain and snow.
500
The temperature at which condensation begins is called this.
What is dew point
500
One of the two bands of calm air belts.
What is doldrums or the horse latitudes
500
When water is given off by green plants.
What is transpiration