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Precipitation
Severe Weather
Air Masses & Fronts
Clouds
Weather Maps
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Water vapor turns into ice crystals instead of a liquid.
What is snow?
100
True or False: A tornado is considered a tornado whether it touches the ground or not.
What is false? It's not technically a tornado until it touches the ground.
100
How the air in air masses are similar.
What is similar temperature and moisture level?
100
The type of cloud that looks gray and can bring rain or snow.
What are stratus clouds?
100
This symbol identifies a cold front.
What are blue lines with triangles?
200
Water vapor condensed in the air.
What is rain?
200
The center of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
200
This kind of air mass brings cool weather with little or no precipitation ("A ____, _____ air mass.").
What is a cold, dry air mass?
200
Cumulus clouds can mean this type of weather.
What are clear, warm days.
200
A red line with half circles along it means this.
What is a warm front?
300
Rain freezes, then falls into a warmer part of the air. Raindrops coat the frozen rain, then it goes through colder air and freezes again.
What is hail?
300
This severe storm has the greater wind speed.
What are tornadoes? It can have wind speeds of over 250 miles per hour.
300
These will often develop along a cold front.
What are thunderstorms?
300
Cool, fair weather can be indicated by this type of cloud.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Orange or red means this kind of temperature.
What are warm/hot temperatures?
400
Falling rain passes through a layer of freezing-cold air and turns into ice.
What is sleet?
400
This causes hurricanes to lose strength.
What is reaching land?
400
This forms when warm air moves over cold air.
What is a warm front?
400
These clouds often occur along warm fronts.
What are status clouds?
400
What the weather is like in Louisianna.
What are temperatures in the 70s and rainy. A cold front is about to pass through.
500
BONUS: This temperature is the difference between rain and snow.
What is 32*F (0*C)?
500
The wind speed that a tropical storm is considered to be a hurricane.
What is 74 mph?
500
This happens with stationary fronts (when two air masses along a front don't have the energy to move).
What are many days of rain or snow?
500
Cumulus clouds look like this.
What are white, fluffy clouds?
500
What the weather will be like in New York in the next couple of days.
What is rainy with warmer temperatures afterward.