This type of cloud is a fair weather cloud that is shaped like a cotton ball.
What is a cumulus cloud?
100
This pressure system brings clear, dry, sunny skies with sinking cold air.
What is a high pressure system?
100
Wind is caused by changes in ______________.
What is air pressure?
100
This area of the world is the warmest because it always gets direct sunlight.
What is the equator?
200
This is measured by a rain gauge.
What is precipitation?
200
This step of the water cycle creates clouds.
What is condensation?
200
This type of front can bring severe weather with cumulonimbus clouds and storms.
What is a cold front?
200
This wind shifts north or south and effects the temperature in the United States.
What is the Jet Stream?
200
This ocean current is off the coast of the eastern United States and its warm waters feed hurricanes.
What is the gulf stream?
300
This instrument measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
Describe a cumulonimbus cloud.
What is a cloud with a dark anvil shape that causes severe weather.. etc.
300
In this front type, stratus clouds form and there is light precipitation. The temperature increases after the front passes through.
What is a warm front?
300
These winds blow across the United States, causing weather patterns to move.
What are prevailing westerlies?
300
If it is winter in the southern hemisphere (Australia) it is this season in the northern hemisphere (United States).
What is summer?
400
Reading this instrument will be the best way to tell if it will be sunny or rainy.
What is a barometer?
400
Fog is this type of cloud.
What is a stratus cloud?
400
The weather man says that there will be a low pressure system moving in tomorrow. This is the type of weather we can expect.
What is rain, clouds, overcast, etc.?
400
Winds across the United States always blow from this direction.
What is from west to east?
400
An El Nino occurs in a cycle that varies from ___ to ___ years.
What is 2 to 7?
500
This is what a hygrometer measures.
What is humidity?
500
Kelly says that there is a stationary front happening in her town. These clouds are most likely to appear in the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
500
This is what happens during a stationary front.
What is warm and cold air masses push in opposite directions, causing light precipitation for multiple days?
500
Explain what happens to the winds at the beach from day to night.
Warm air rises over the beach during the day and sinks over the ocean. The sun sets and the ocean stays warm. The cold air sinks over land, causing the wind to change directions.
500
Describe the difference between an El Nino and a La Nina.
Answers vary but must contain the fact that the ocean waters in the Pacific get warmer or colder.