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CLOUDS
WATER CYCLE
FRONTS AND PRESSURES
NATURE DISASTERS
MEASURING MATERIALS
100
CIRRUS
What is a wispy, feathery clouds made of ice crystals?
100
Evaportation
What is a form that changes from a liquid to a gas?
100
Front
What is a place where air masses meet?
100
Tornado
What is a funnel shaped cloud that reaches the ground and is very violent and destructive by moving across land?
100
Climate
What is the average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time called?
200
Stratus
What is a flat layer of gray clouds that cover the sky like a blanket?
200
Precipitation
What is called when water falls to the earth in a form?
200
Cold Front
What is it called when warm air rises quickly, and causes quick violent storms?
200
Thunderstorm
What is a storm produced by a cumulonimbus cloud, there is thunder, lightning, strong winds, and maybe even hail?
200
Wind
What is created by the differences in air pressures called?
300
Cumulus
What is fluffy clouds that come out on a nice day?
300
transpiration
What is it called when water is evaporated from plants?
300
Warm front
What is it called when warm air slides over cool air, and causes feathery clouds and maybe some light showers?
300
Hurricane
What is a tropical storm that forms over warm ocean waters, and can be up to 600 miles wide?
300
Radiation
What is the energy transferred by traveling in waves, this form of energy can also travel through empty space?
400
Cumulonimbus
What is a giant thunderhead clouds associated with violent thunderstorms?
400
conduction
What is it called when heat is transferred by direct physical contact?
400
High pressure
What is it called when cooler air sinks, and there is very little moisture causing happy weather?
400
Drought
What is a long period of time with a shortage of rainfall called?
400
Humidity
What is a measure of how much moisture is in the air called?
500
Condensation; water vapor cools down to becomes liquid water
How are clouds made?
500
Convection
What is it called when heat is transferred through a fluid?
500
Low pressure
What is it called when warmer air rises, and there is more moisture that causes lousy weather?
500
Air Mass
What is a large body of air called?
500
Barometer
What is an instrument used to measure air pressure called?