Weather

Question 1

The amount of water vapor in the air

Answer 1

Humidity

Question 2

A low-level, billowy cloud that commonly has a top that resembles cotton balls and a dark bottom

Answer 2

Cumulus Cloud

Question 3

A gray cloud that has a flat, uniform base and that commonly forms at very low altitudes

Answer 3

Stratus Cloud

Question 4

A feathery cloud that is composed of ice crystals and that has the highest altitude of any cloud in the sky

Answer 4

Cirrus Cloud

Question 5

Is a dense, towering vertical cloud associated with thunderstorms and atmospheric instability, forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents

Answer 5

Cumulonimbus Cloud

Question 6

The change of state from a gas to a liquid

Answer 6

Condensation

Question 7

The change of state from a liquid to a gas

Answer 7

Evaporation

Question 8

Any form of water that falls to Earth’s surface from the clouds; includes rain, snow, sleet, and hail

Answer 8

Precipitation

Question 9

Precipitation that flows over the land and into streams and rivers

Answer 9

Runoff

Question 10

Is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then becomes heavy enough to fall under gravity

Answer 10

Rain

Question 11

A form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow

Answer 11

Sleet

Question 12

Forms of ice crystals that precipitate from the atmosphere and undergo changes on the Earth’s surface

Answer 12

Snow

Question 13

Pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds

Answer 13

Hail

Question 14

Are moist

Answer 14

Polar – Maritime Air mass

Question 15

Originate over the warm waters of the tropics and Gulf of Mexico

Answer 15

Tropical – Maritime Air mass

Question 16

Dry air near the surface

Answer 16

Polar – Continental Air mass

Question 17

Formed over land in area close to the equator

Answer 17

Tropical – Continental Air mass

Question 18

The boundary of an advancing mass of cold air, in particular the trailing edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system

Answer 18

Cold Front

Question 19

The boundary of an advancing mass of warm air, in particular the leading edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system

Answer 19

Warm Front

Question 20

A storm with thunder and lightning and typically also heavy rain or hail

Answer 20

Thunderstorm

Question 21

The occurrence of a natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud, accompanied by a bright flash and typically also thunder.

Answer 21

Lightning

Question 22

A loud rumbling or crashing noise heard after a lightning flash due to the expansion of rapidly heated air

Answer 22

Thunder

Question 23

Is a rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud

Answer 23

Tornado

Question 24

A storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean

Answer 24

Hurricane

Question 25

An instrument for measuring and indicating temperature, typically one consisting of a narrow, hermetically sealed glass tube marked with graduations and having at one end a bulb containing mercury or alcohol that expands and contracts in the tube with heating and cooling

Answer 25

Thermometer

Question 26

An instrument for measuring the speed of the wind, or of any current of gas

Answer 26

Anemometer