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100
What measures the heat energy of the air?
What is a thermometer?
100
What is the continuous cycle of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation called?
What is the water cycle?
100
Which cloud is a white, puffy cotton ball that is sen in fair weather?
What is a cumulus cloud?
100
Which storm forms over oceans?
What is a hurricane?
100
Air pressing down with more pressure on the earth is a ________ pressure area.
What is high?
200
What measures precipitation?
What is a rain gauge?
200
__________ is when the sun heats the water on the earth and it turns into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
Which cloud is high in the sky and made of ice crystals?
What is a cirrus cloud?
200
Which storm has a funnel shaped cloud and high winds?
What is a tornado?
200
An area with the same temperature and pressure is known as an ________________.
What is air mass?
300
What measures air pressure?
What is a barometer?
300
_________ is when water vapor rises and hits cooler air.
What is condensation?
300
Which cloud is a grey sheetlike blanket that brings steady rain and drizzle?
What is a stratus cloud?
300
All storms form in a _______ pressure system.
What is low?
300
An area where two air masses meet is called a ___________.
What is front?
400
What measures humidity?
What is a hygrometer?
400
What is the source of energy for the water cycle?
What is the sun?
400
A ________ cloud is a dark towering cloud that often brings severe weather.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
400
Air moving from high pressure to low pressure is ________.
What is wind?
400
A tool that will tell you if it is a good day to fly a kite is an ___________.
What is anemometer?
500
What measures wind speed?
What is an anemometer?
500
When water vapor rises, hits cooler air, and then condenses __________ forms.
What are clouds?
500
Which cloud is a sign of fair weather?
What is a cumulus cloud?
500
A cumulonimbus cloud most produces _____________.
What is thunderstorms?
500
Low pressure areas bring __________ weather.
What is lousy?