The ____________ is nature's way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100
A blanket of clouds that covers the lower part of the sky; depending on the temperature rain or snow falls from them…
What are stratus clouds?
100
When two different air masses meet, it is called ________________.
What is a front?
100
The ________ makes us use the same water as people did hundreds of years ago.
What is the water cycle?
100
The measure of how hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
200
Scientists who study weather are _______________.
What are meteorologists?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds…
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Weather usually moves from _________ to __________.
What is west to east?
200
Hail, rain, sleet, and snow are all forms of ____________.
What is precipitation?
200
Instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
______________ is a that measures the wind direction.
What is a weather vane?
300
Thin feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they generally fair to pleasant weather…
What are cirrus clouds?
300
In this pressure system there is cool air with less evaporation; good weather is coming...
What is a high pressure system?
300
The ___________ is the process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation?
300
This type of cloud is only seen with warm fronts?
What are stratus clouds?
400
This instrument measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds…
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
In this pressure system warm air rises and forms clouds; bad weather is coming...
What is a low pressure system?
400
When warm air rises and begins to cool. As the air cools, the water vapor changes back into tiny droplets of liquid which create clouds.
What is condensation?
400
This type of air mass brings nice weather conditions with some light steady rain.
What is a warm front?
500
The weather of a place over a long period of time...
What is climate?
500
Clouds that form at the earth's surface...
What is fog?
500
A boundary between two different air masses, neither of which is strong enough to replace the other…
What is a stationary front?
500
It rains. The ground becomes saturated. The runoff of water (from rain, snow, hail) runs from higher ground to _____________ in rivers, oceans, lakes, and puddles.
What is accumulate?
500
This violent weather condition has the lowest barometric pressure.