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Clouds
Water Cycle
Weather Instruments
Weather
Climate
100
Clouds that bring thunderstorms.
What are Cumulonimbus clouds?
100
It falls from clouds in the form of sleet, snow, hail, and rain.
What is Precipitation?
100
Measures the amount of precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
100
This is a layer of atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
100
It is hot and rainy.
What is a tropical climate?
200
They are fluffy and have flat bases and bring fair weather?
What are cumulus clouds?
200
The change of state from liquid to gas.
What is Evaporation?
200
Measures the air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
This includes temperature, amount of water vapor in the air, wind, and air pressure.
What are weather factors?
200
latitude, altitude, bodies of water, and mountains.
What are the factors affecting climate?
300
These are thin and feathery, made of ice crystals and bring fair weather.
What are cirrus clouds?
300
condensation
What is the change of state from gas to liquid?
300
It has cups that spin to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
300
Much of North America was covered by ice 20,000 years ago.
What is the ice age?
400
These are low-level clouds that form layers and bring steady rain.
What are Stratus clouds?
400
Precipiation that moves to the nearest source.
What is collection?
400
It tells the temperature of air and water.
What is a thermometer?
400
The weight of air as it presses down.
What is air pressure?
400
When one side of a mountain is wet an lush and the other side is dry like a desert.
What is the rain shadow effect?
500
It causes clouds to form.
What is Condensation?
500
Heat from the sun causes water to change into this.
What is water vapor?
500
This instrument measures the height of cloud bases and overall cloud thickness.
What is a ceilometer?
500
When a cold air mass meets a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
500
This is one effect of changing ocean currents.
What is El Nino?