Water Cycle
What are types of precipitation?
What is rain, snow, sleet, hail
This front often brings brief, heavy storms or thunderstorms and strong winds.
What is a cold front?
What are the major types of clouds?
What is Cumulus, Cumulonimbus, Stratus, Cirrus
Measures the temperature either in Fahrenheit or Celsius
What is a thermometer?
What is west to east.
Name one of the steps of the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation or runoff
This front often brings light, steady rain and winds, fog, and stratus clouds.
What is a warm front?
What does nimbus mean?
Rain or snow
This instrument measures the amount of rainfall or precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
Define El Nino
What is an event that occurs every two to seven years in the pacific ocean, during which winds shift and push warm surface water toward the coast of South America.
Define run off
What is precipitation that has fallen back to the earth and back into the oceans, lakes, rivers or land
Warm air moves in over a cold air mass. This type of front often brings light, steady rain or snow. The precipitation may last for days.
What is warm front?
Puffy clouds that have a flat bottom.
What are cumulus clouds?
This weather instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
What is the difference between land breeze and sea breeze.
Land breeze is the flow of air from land to a body of water and sea breeze is the flow of air from an ocean or lake to the land.
This is when water vapor is cooled and turned back into water droplets that condense and form a cloud.
What is condensation?
Cold air moves in under a warm air mass. This type of front often brings brief, heavy storms.
What is cold front?
Clouds that form at very high altitudes out of ice crystals and have a wispy, featherlike shape.
What are cirrus clouds?
This high tech weather instrument, used by meteoroligists, measures precipitation patterns.
What is Doppler radar?
Which type of pressure systems are associated with bad stormy weather and why?
Low pressure systems are associated with stormy weather because air around a low pressure system rises, eventually causing water vapor to condense into water leading to cloud formation and possible rain.
This is when liquid water turns into water vapor and rises when heated by the sun.
What is evaporation?
When a warm and cold front meet, which air is forced to move up and why?
Warm air is forced upwards due to it being less dense.
Clouds that form in blanketlike layers.
What are stratus clouds?
This weather instrument measures the speed of wind.
What is an anemometer?
A natural disaster that occurs over warm waters
What is a hurricane?