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Water Cycle
Instruments
Vocabulary
Fronts
Clouds
100
This drives all weather.
What is the sun?
100
It is used to measure temperature.
What is thermometer?
100
The movement of air masses
What is wind?
100
This is made of cold dense air.
What is a cold front?
100
They are made of ice crystals.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
During this stage, water becomes a vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
Used to gather and measure the amount of liquid precipitation over a set period of time
What is a rain gauge?
200
This happens when there is a lack of precipitation.
What is drought?
200
On a map, this type of front uses red lines with half circles.
What is a warm front?
200
These are greyish clouds that fill the entire sky.
What are status clouds?
300
When clouds and fog are formed
What is condensation?
300
It spins on a rod and points in the direction from which the wind comes.
What is a wind vane?
300
This drops when a storm is approaching.
What is air pressure?
300
When two air masses meet, this is formed
What is a front?
300
This type brings thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
rain, snow, sleet, and hail
What are the forms of precipitation?
400
This tells us when the pressure changes.
What is a barometer?
400
This raises when their is lots of moisture in the air.
What is humidity?
400
When two air masses meet, sometimes neither one takes over.
What is a stationary front?
400
Nickname for cumulus clouds.
What are fair-weather clouds?
500
This happens when the ground can not absorb any more water.
What is run-off?
500
Measurement: 10 mph winds from SW
What is an anemometer (speed) and wind vane (direction)?
500
These are strong air currents that help weathermen predict the weather.
What is the jet stream?
500
Fronts bring these
What are changes in weather?
500
___________ clouds can turn into ____________ clouds, or thunderstorm clouds.
What are cumulus and cumulonimbus?