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Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Weather Round Up
100
Word that describes all the waters of Earth
Hydrosphere
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are nimbostratus clouds?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Type of pressure system most storms are associated with.
What is a low pressure system?
100
A weather instrument used to measure relative humidity.
What is a sling psychrometer?
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200
The direction that global winds move in the United States, in relation to the equator.
What is west to east, away from the equator.
300
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300
A low pressure tropical storm that forms over warm ocean water; winds form a spinning circular pattern around the center, or eye, of the storm
What is a hurricane?
300
The layers of the atmosphere from lowest air pressure to highest air pressure.
Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesophere, Stratosphere, Troposphere.
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets.
What is condensation?
400
Stratus cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
The direction that hurricanes and tornados rotate in the Northern Hemisphere
What is a counter-clockwise
400
Type of heat transfer that circulates air.
What is convection?
500
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The weather of a place over a long time. Based on global wind circulation.
What is climate?
500
These 2 types of fronts are usually where severe weather is formed.
What is cold front and occluded front.
500
The percentages of the two most abundant elements in the atmosphere,
What is 78% Nitrogen, 21%Oxygen?