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Clouds
Weather or Climate
Instruments
Water Cycle
Stormy Weather
100
The three basic types of clouds
What is cirrus, stratus, cumulus?
100
Pattern of weather over a long period of time
What is climate?
100
Measures the air temperature
What is a thermometer?
100
The main heat source that causes evaporation to occur
What is the sun?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
200
High wispy ice clouds
What is cirrus?
200
The day to day condition of the atmosphere
What is weather?
200
This instrument determines the direction from which the wind is blowing
What is a wind vane?
200
The process in which liquid water becomes water vapour (a gas)
What is evaporation?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
300
Fluffy lower clouds that often "grow" during the sunny days. Usually mean fair weather
What is cumulus?
300
Banff is close to Calgary, but it is at a higher elevation. Consequently, it takes longer for the snow to melt in Banff than in Calgary
What is climate?
300
This instrument measures the amount of rain that has fallen over a specific time period
What is a rain gauge?
300
The process in which water vapour (a gas) in the air turns into liquid water
What is condensation?
300
Large powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
400
Flat layer of low clouds. Light rain, drizzle, or flurries likely.
What is stratus?
400
There was so much snow in St. Laurent that the schools in the region were closed
What is weather?
400
This instrument measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
400
The process in which water (in the form of rain snow, sleet, or hail) falls from the clouds in the sky
What is precipitation?
400
This type of storm recently hit the country of Haiti
What is a typhoon?
500
Thick blue-grey blanket-like clouds made of ice and water. Rain or snow likely
What is alto-cumulus?
500
In July, a tornado destroyed two barns in the St. Claude region
What is weather?
500
This instrument measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
500
The process in which some water within plants evaporates into the atmosphere
What is transpiration?
500
There are approximately 1, 800 of these happening in the world at any given time
What is thunderstorms?