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Question 1

Water Cycle

Answer 1

The movement of water through the earth’s systems powered by the suns energy cycle has groundwater, evaporation, Evapotransporation (Plants), condensation precipitaion, Rain, Runoff,

Question 2

Humidity

Answer 2

A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air

Question 3

Relative Humidity

Answer 3

the percentage of water vapor in the air compared to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a particular temp

Question 4

Dew Point

Answer 4

The temperature at which condensation begins

Question 5

Cirrus

Answer 5

Wispy feathery clouds at high altitudes

Question 6

stratus

Answer 6

Low flat clouds

Question 7

Cumulus

Answer 7

The cotton ball clouds low altitude

Question 8

Nimbus

Answer 8

A mid-altitude cloud that has precipitation

Question 9

Precipitation

Answer 9

Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches the earth’s surface. Includes rain snow hail freezing rain and sleet

Question 10

Rain Gauge

Answer 10

An open end tube that collects rain water

Question 11

Floods

Answer 11

Overflowing of water in a normally dry area

Question 12

Droughts

Answer 12

A long period of scarce rainfall and dry weather

Question 13

Air Masses

Answer 13

a huge body of air in the lower atmosphere that has similar temp

Question 14

Maritime

Answer 14

Form over Ocean

Question 15

Polar

Answer 15

cold air

Question 16

Continental

Answer 16

Form of continent

Question 17

Tropical

Answer 17

warm air

Question 18

Prevailing westerlies

Answer 18

The major wind belts over the continental USA

Question 19

Trade winds

Answer 19

a wind blowing steadily toward the equator from the northeast in the northern hemisphere or the southeast in the southern hemisphere, especially at sea.

Question 20

Jet Streams

Answer 20

bands if high speed winds about 10 km above earth

Question 21

Fronts

Answer 21

The boundary where air masses meet

Question 22

Cold Front

Answer 22

warm rises and expands which makes it cooler

Question 23

Warm Front

Answer 23

Fast warm air takes out the cold air

Question 24

Occluded front

Answer 24

The warm air mass is caught between two cold air masses

Question 25

Stationary front

Answer 25

Cold air and warm air meet and neither push each other

Question 26

Cyclone

Answer 26

A swirling center of low air pressure

Question 27

anticyclone

Answer 27

High pressure swirling centers of dry air

Question 28

Storms

Answer 28

a violent disturbance in the atmosphere

Question 29

Thunderstorms

Answer 29

A small storm often occupanied by precipitation and thunder and lightning

Question 30

Hurricane

Answer 30

A tropical cyclone with winds 119km/h or higher

Question 31

Lightning

Answer 31

A sudden spark or electrical discharge

Question 32

Storm Surge

Answer 32

A “dome” of water that sweeps across the coast where the hurricane lands

Question 33

Tornado

Answer 33

A rapidly swirling funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a t-storm to touch the earth’s surface

Question 34

Meteoroligist

Answer 34

Scientists who study and try to predict the weather

Question 35

Phychrometer

Answer 35

A tool that has 2 bulbs, a wet one and a dry one that measures relative humidity