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Energy From the Sun
Water Cycle
Precipitation
Air masses
Fronts
100
The source of energy given by the sun.
What is heat?
100
Water vapor in the air cools.
What is Condensation?
100
Rain drops that freeze on a cold surface.
What is freezing rain?
100
Air mass that forms over land.
What is continental air mass?
100
Weather: snow for several days.
What is stationary front?
200
The energy from the sun that heats Earth's surface.
What is radiation?
200
Water molecules gather and become droplets.
What is precipitation?
200
Happens during a thunderstorm and is carried through several layers of cold regions.
What is hail?
200
Air mass that forms over large bodies of water.
What is maritime air mass?
200
Weather: thunderstorms and lightning.
What is cold front?
300
Most of the energy from the sun travels to Earth in the form of invisible _________________.
What is light?
300
When water molecules become a gas.
What is evaporation?
300
A small water droplet.
What is rain?
300
Air masses that form over the Northern and Southern points of earth.
What is Polar air mass?
300
Weather: In the morning it was sunny, and by lunch thunderstorms, and by afternoon it snowed.
What is Occluded front?
400
Some sunlight is absorbed by the _____________before it reaches the surface of Earth.
What is Atmosphere or sky?
400
A cloud that looks wispy and are made of ice crystals.
What is Cirrus?
400
raindrops that fall through layers of freezing rain and turn into solid ice.
What is sleet?
400
Air masses that form in areas near the equator.
What is tropical air masses?
400
Weather: light rain and some scattered clouds.
What is warm front?
500
A vital resource that is cycled on Earth.
What is the water cycle?
500
A cloud that brings thunderstorms or rain.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
Water vapor that converts into ice crystals.
What is snow?
500
Name the two air masses: warm and humid weather by the West Coast.
What is Maritime Tropical air masses?
500
A type of weather that only forms in occluded fronts.
What are cyclones?