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The water cycle
Clouds
Precipitation
Fronts
Storms
100
What is the first stage of the water cycle?
What is collection?
100
What are the type of clouds that are puffy and have flat bottoms?
What are cumulus clouds?
100
What is water in solid or liquid form that falls from the air to earth?
What is precipitation?
100
What type of front can move quickly and bring thunderstorms, heavy rain, or snow?
What is a cold front?
100
What type of storms can occur along cold fronts, and can develop in other places as well?
What are thunderstorms?
200
What stage occurs when water vapor cools and changes from a gas to a liquid?
What is condensation?
200
What clouds cover large portions of the sky and often block out the sun?
What are stratus clouds?
200
What is the most common form of precipitation?
What is rain?
200
What type of front forms when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass?
What is a stationary front?
200
What produces an electric discharge that occurs between a positively charged area and a negatively charged area?
What is lightning?
300
How many parts of the water cycle are there?
What is 4?
300
What type of clouds are thin and feathery and are located at high altitudes?
What are Cirrus Clouds?
300
Sleet forms when rain falls through a layer of ____ air?
What is freezing?
300
What type of front forms when a warm air mass is cought between two colder air masses?
What is a occluded front?
300
What is a small spinning column of air that has high wind speeds and a low central pressure and touches the ground?
What is a tornadoes?
400
What stage occurs when a liquid water changes into water vapor which is a gas?
What is evaporation?
400
What is a collection of small water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air?
What are clouds?
400
What type of cloud does hail form in?
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
What type of front forms where warm air moves over cold, denser air?
What is a warm front?
400
A hurricane is a large rotating _____ storm.
What is tropical?
500
What are the 4 parts of the water cycle in order?
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff.
500
What type of cloud indicates fair weather?
What are cumulus clouds?
500
Before a rain droplet falls it must become ____ times it's size?
What is 100?
500
What type of front has air masses that remain separate?
What is a stationary front?
500
What is the most powerful storm on the earth?
What is a hurricane?