Thermal Energy
What is "thermal energy?"
A type of energy related to temperature
Clouds are formed through a process called __________.
condensation
Hailstones can be ________ different shapes and sizes depending on the conditions present during the storm.
many
Hail storms mostly occur in the ____________ of the country.
middle
This is a visual representation of data that has an X-axis and a Y-axis
Graph
How does energy transfer from one object to another?
Through collisions
Clouds are made of the same matter that makes up air, such as _______________ (name two).
oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon, dust, pollen, ash, and pollution
Hailstones actually begin as tiny ______________ lower in the storm cloud.
water droplets
Hail storms are usually accompanied by rain. (TRUE/FALSE)
TRUE
These are not titles of the entire text, but name each section of a text, breaking it into similar information.
subheadings/subtitles
As particles continue to collide, they ________ energy, causing the object to cool down.
lose
Air rises, cools and condenses into clouds, and eventually circulate back down to Earth in a process known as ______________.
convection
___________ cause the hail to be forced further up into the atmosphere, causing any moisture to be frozen.
Updrafts
As hailstones rise and fall in storm clouds, they accumulate more ___________ as water molecules freeze to them.
mass
A tool used by authors that help a reader understand a symbol or object that occurs multiple times in a diagram.
Key
The more energy particles in an object have, the __________ and object will become.
warmer
Clouds that condense at lower altitudes, but continue rising and spreading out once they reach cooler temperatures are known as ________________, clouds primarily known to create storms.
cumulonimbus clouds
As hailstones are forced higher into the atmosphere, the force of the updraft becomes _____________, causing the hailstone to drop lower into the storm cloud.
weaker/less
What color is Mr. Clark's tie?
LOOK
This tells us the directions on a map, more useful than using up, down, left right.
Compass Rose
When objects are heated, they become les _________, causing them to rise above other objects.
dense
The reason we can see clouds is because they become more dense than the air around them causing the light to _____________.
refract
In order for hailstones to form, conditions must be just right. They need warmer _____________, and cooler air ________________.
near the ground, higher in the atmosphere
Hailstones fall when their mass becomes too great, mean the _______________ will be greater than ______________.
force of gravity, the force of the updraft
This is anything that is used, observed, or measured in an investigation or data set.
Variable