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Cycles
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Wild and Wacky
100
Sea and land brezses over a large region that change direction with the seasons..
What are monsoons?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
A violent disturbance in the troposphere
What is a storm?
100
Air that spins counter-clockwise
What is an anticyclone?
200
The movement of air between the equator and the poles.
What are global winds.?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface.
What is a tornado?
200
Formed by warm air moving over cold air.
What is a warm front?
300
The way Earth''s rotation [from west to east] makes the winds curve.
What is the Coriolis effect?
300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Wind coming onto land from a body of water
What is a sea breeze?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over warm water as a low-pressure area.
What is a hurricane?
300
Precipitation that comes in different shapes and patterns depending on temperature and humidity but all see to have six sides or branches.
What are snowflakes?
400
The winds that blow away fromt he poles
What are the polar winds?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400
An instrument that works by comparing the temperatures on a wet-bulb and a dry-bulb thermometer.
What is an psychometer?
400
A "dome" of water that sweeps across a coast where a hurricane reaches land.
What is a storm surge?
400
The temperature at which air can no longer hold all of its water vapor, in which case some of the water vapor starts condensing into liquid water.
What is dew point?
500
The air mass that holds the greatest percentage of water vapor and has the lowest pressure.
What is warm air?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The weather of a region over a long period of time
What is climate?
500
As cold dry air moves across warmer water it picks up water vapor and when that air reaches land and cools.
What is a lake-effect snow?
500
The clouds from which thunderstorms arise
What are cumulonimbus?