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The Water Cycle
Clouds
Fronts
Lightning Hurricanes and severe thunderstorms
Etc.
100
The condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is weather
100
A collection of small water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air.
What is a cloud
100
An electrical discharge that occurs between a positive charged area and a negative charged area.
What is lightning
100
A small spinning column of air that has high wind speeds and low central pressure and touches the ground.
What is tornado
200
This process occurs when water vapor cools to a liquid
What is Condensation
200
Fluffy white clouds that indicate fair weather and form when warm air rises. When these clouds get larger the form thunderstorms
What is cumulus clouds
200
Is when warm air moves over cold air, denser air.
What is a warm front
200
Lightning can occur between the earth and cloud or even the same .....
What is cloud
200
The most powerful type of tornado.
What is F-5
300
This process occurs when rain, snow, sleet, or hail falls from the clouds onto the earth.
What is Precipitation
300
Clouds that form layers and cover large portions of the sky. They often block out the sun and this type of cloud forms fog.
What is stratus clouds
300
Form when warm air mass is caught between two cold air masses.
What is an occluded front
300
The most powerful storms on earth
What is a hurricane
300
Lumps of ice that fall from the clouds are called...
What is hail
400
The process when water which is precipitation flows across land and collects in other bodies of water.
What is Runoff
400
Forms when a hot and cold air mass meet.
What is stationary front
400
A hurricane has speeds of at least...
What is 120 kilometers per hour
400
The condition of the ____ is effected by the amount of water in the air.
What is atmosphere
500
When water changes into water vapor and goes up towards the sky.
What is evaporation
500
A thin feathery white cloud that forms in high altitude
What is a cirrus cloud
500
TRICK: an area where air masses come together, or converge and rise.
What is a cyclone
500
This can produce: high winds, hail, flash floods, tornadoes
What is a severe thunderstorm
500
Is the ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a temperature.
What is relative humidity