The sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam.
What is Evaporation?
100
These clouds are puffy clouds that sometimes look like pieces of floating cotton.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
_____________ occurs over a short term.
What is Weather?
100
The average weather for any given area over many years.
What is Climate?
100
When a large body of air stays in an area over a long period of time, it takes on the characteristic temperatures and humidity of that area and becomes an _______ _______.
What is an air mass?
200
Any moisture that falls to the ground from clouds is called _____________?
What is Precipitation?
200
These clouds are uniform grayish clouds that often cover the entire sky. They resemble fog that does not reach the ground
What are Stratus Clouds?
200
Specific atmospheric conditions including temperature, rainfall, wind, and humidity at a given place and time.
What is Weather?
200
Weather conditions such as temperature, humidity, air pressure, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and wind are ___________ out over many decades.
Weather conditions such as temperature, humidity, air pressure, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and wind are AVERAGED out over many decades.
200
The line where air masses meet.
What is a front?
300
Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming ____________.
What are clouds?
300
These clouds are middle level clouds that are made of water droplets and appear as gray, puffy masses, sometimes rolled out in parallel waves or bands
What are Altostratus Clouds?
300
Weather is ______ ______ ______ everywhere.
Weather is NOT THE SAME everywhere.
300
Climates also change with ________.
What is Time?
300
These air masses are high pressure because because the molecules are closer together, therefore the pressure is higher.
What is a Cold air mass?
400
Evaporation takes place mostly in _______ and ________.
What are lakes and oceans?
400
These clouds are thunderstorm clouds that form if cumulus congestus clouds continue to grow vertically. Lightning, thunder, and even violent tornadoes are associated with these clouds.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
Sunshine, rain, cloud cover, winds, hail, snow, sleet, freezing rain, flooding, blizzards, ice storms, thunderstorms, steady rains from a cold front or warm front, excessive heat, heat waves and more.
Things that make up our weather
400
If weather patterns continue over the course of many summers, than it would likely indicate a __________ in the climate.
What is a change?
400
A tool that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
500
The process by which plants lose water out of their leaves.
What is Transpiration?
500
These clouds are thin, wispy clouds blown by high winds into long streamers
What are Cirrus Clouds?
500
Everyday, weather events are recorded and predicted by _________________worldwide.
Everyday, weather events are recorded and predicted by METEOROLOGISTS worldwide.
500
Scientists define climate as the average weather for a particular ________ and _________ period, usually taken over ___-years.
What is region, time, and 30?
500
These air masses are low pressure areas because the molecules are further apart causing a lower air pressure.