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Clouds
Extreme Weather
Weather and Fronts
The Atmosphere
The Sun and Weather
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These are formed when hot air rises and then condenses high in the atmosphere.
What is clouds?
100
The day-to-day environmental conditions in a location.
What is weather?
100
Alaska is always cold in the winter while Florida is always warm. These are examples of?
What is climate?
100
The thin gaseous veil surrounding the Earth.
What is atmosphere?
100
The Earth going around the sun is known as this.
What is revolution.
200
This is a type of cloud that forms very near to the ground.
What is fog?
200
A sever storm with strong winds and low temperature with blowing snow.
What is a blizzard?
200
When two air masses collide they create a boundary of stormy and unsettled weather.
What is fronts?
200
This layer makes life on Earth possible.
What is the ozone layer.
200
This causes the Earth to have seasons.
What is the Earths tilt?
300
This type of cloud can be characterized by thin wispy strands.
What is cirrus?
300
Most of this type of windy extereme weather storms occur between August and November.
What is hurricanes?
300
A front shown with blue sharp "teeth".
What is the cold front?
300
Uneven heating of air creates this.
What is wind?
300
Thermal energy transfered from one object to another is known as this.
What is heat?
400
This type of cloud is typically what we call a storm cloud.
What is cumulonimbus?
400
This event is caused by an earthquake at the bottom of the ocean causing huge waves.
What is a tsunami?
400
When a warm or a cold front stop moving.
What is a stationary front?
400
Pangea is an example of this.
What is a supercontinent.
400
The water cycle depends on these outputs.
What is evaporation and transpiration?
500
These three conditions affect the density of air.
What is temperature, humidity, and altitude.
500
This effect that explains why water turns counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere
What is the corialis effect?
500
When a cold front overtakes a warm front.
What is a occluded front?
500
Clusters of charged particles with extremely high energy coming mainly from the sun form this.
What is Aurora Borealis?
500
These are the three ways that heat gets transferred.
What is conduction, convection, and radiation?