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Climatic zones
Types of storms
Types of weather
Types of clouds
Factors used to predict weather
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This type of climate is cold.
What is polar?
100
This storm is cold and the ice that comes from it can be up to the size of baseballs!
What is a hailstorm?
100
Hot, sometimes humid, and comes from a ball of fire in space.
What is sunny?
100
This cloud is the most common of the high clouds and are composed of ice. They are thin and wispy.
What are cirrus clouds?
100
This weathers air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
200
This type of climate can be a type of forest, and can be a type of fruit.
What is tropical?
200
This type of storm looks like a funnel and can get up to 296 miles per hour!
What is a tornado?
200
Wet, sometimes cold, and comes from condensed water.
What is rainy?
200
These clouds are thin, sheetlike clouds that often cover the whole sky. They are so thin that the sun and the moon can be seen through them!
What are cirrostratus clouds?
200
This is a navigational instrument for finding directions.
What is a compass?
300
This climatic zone is a flat, treeless arctic region of Europe, Asia and North America.
What is tundra?
300
This type of storm usually comes in winter, and is VERY windy and cold.
What is a blizzard?
300
Precipitation consisting of ice pellets.
What is sleet?
300
These clouds are mid-level clouds that are made of water droplets and appear as grey puffy masses. They usually form in groups.
What are Altocumulus clouds?
300
These are used to photograph and track large scale air movements.
What are weather satellites?
400
This type of climatic zone is an area of high or mountainous land.
What is highland?
400
This huge storm can reach up to 190 miles per hour!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is a hurricane?
400
Pellets of frozen rain.
What is hail?
400
These are grayish clouds that often cover the entire sky.
What is a stratus cloud?
400
This is an instrument that determines the direction from which the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane?
500
This climatic zone is a climate characterized by long, usually very cold winters and short, cool to mild summers.
What is the subarctic climate?
500
This type of storm is very windy.
What is a windstorm?
500
The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.
What is humidity?
500
These are white puffy, clouds that look like pieces of floating cotton.
What are cumulus clouds?
500
This measures weather conditions higher up in the atmosphere.
What is a weather balloon?