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Measuring
Severe Storms
Water Cycle
Clouds
Types of Precipitation
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A device that measures air pressure
What is a barometor?
100
A severe storm that results in days of high winds and rain.
What is a hurricane?
100
this is like evaporation except its from plants
What is transpiration
100
these clouds look like little dots in the sky
What are cirrocumulus clouds?
100
this is the most famous type of precipitation
What is rain
200
a device that measures the amount of rainfall
What is a raingauge?
200
A storm that normally results in a narrow path of high destruction
What is a tornado?
200
This is caused by water droplets building up in a cloud and gaining weight the n falling
What is precipitation
200
This prefix means high
What is cirro
200
this is like rain except is freezes on contact with the ground
What is freezing rain
300
a barometer that measures in inches.
What is a mercury barometer?
300
A storm that normaly brings high winds and very cold temperature
What is a winter storm
300
this is water in the form of a gas
What is water vapor
300
this prefix means middle
What is alto
300
this is caused by sleet getting caught in a storms updraft and adds a new layer of ice each time.
What is hail
400
A barometer that measures in millobars.
What is an aneroid barometer?
400
A very sudden storm. usally caused by a very high intensity rainfall or a dam failure
What is a flash flood
400
this is what happens when water lands on a sloped surface
What is runoff
400
a cloud that looks like an anvil
What is a cumulonimbous cloud
400
this is when ice crystals fall from a cloud and do not melt
What is snow
500
A device that measures humidity.
What is a hygrometer
500
hurricanes normally move towards this type of pressure system
What is low pressure ?
500
These are all the steps of the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff?
500
a prefix meaning precipitation
What is Nimbo or nimbous
500
this is like small hail
What is sleet