Water Cycle
Weather Facts
Air masses and fronts
Clouds
Severe Weather
100
Water changes from a liquid to a gas in this process
What is evaporation?
100
Humidity is the amount of this in the air.
What is water or moisture?
100
What are the two main types of air masses?
Warm air mass (warm front) and cold air mass (cold front)
100
A thunderstorm/rain cloud is called a _________.
cumulonnimbus (or for short nimbus)
100
Name 2 types of severe weather.
thunderstorms
tornadoes
tropical storms
hurricanes
blizzards
200
The water cycle depends on _______ to provide it energy
What is the sun?
200
When air rises, water vapour in the air will do this.
What is condense?
200
Kind of weather you have with a high pressure air mass.
What is cold and dry?
200
Name this cloud
cumulus
200
This type of severe weather starts in the warm tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a hurricane?
300
The process of water molecules in the air is changed into liquid water.
What is condensation?
300
What is humidity?
Amount of water vapor in the air.
300
Weather with a low pressure air mass.
What is lousy weather/rain/storms/clouds?
300
How do clouds form?
What is condensation?
300
True or false? Tornados are categorized on a scale of 1-10.
False
Scale of 1-5
400
The way in which water returns to the earth
What is precipitation?
400
This is used to measure atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
Changes in weather is caused by two ________ colliding.
fronts
400
Name this cloud
Stratus
400
This rising water affect related to a hurricane striking land is one of, if not the most dangerous part of a hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
500
The process of water vapor from plants returning to the air
What is transpiration?
500
The three factors that influence atmospheric pressure.
What is altitude, temperature and humidity?
500
What type of weather is created with a cold front?
Cooler temperatures, rain or snow.
500
Name this cloud
cirrus
500
Tornadoes are only visible because of this, which is picked up in the rotational funnel cloud?
What is debris?