Weather vocab

Question 1

Humidity

Answer 1

The amount of water vapor in the air

Question 2

Condensation

Answer 2

The change of state from a gas to a liquid

Question 3

Cumulus Cloud

Answer 3

Puffy, white clouds with flat bottoms

Question 4

Cumulonimbus Cloud

Answer 4

Where thunderstorms come from

Question 5

Cirrus Cloud

Answer 5

Thin, feathery, white clouds at high altitudes

Question 6

Stratus Cloud

Answer 6

Cover large areas, often block the sun

Question 7

Evaporation

Answer 7

When the state of a liquid becomes a gas

Question 8

Precipitation

Answer 8

Any form of water that falls to the Earth’s surface from the clouds

Question 9

Runoff

Answer 9

Water That flows across the land and collect in rivers streams and the ocean

Question 10

Sleet

Answer 10

forms when rain falls through a layer of freezing air. The rain freezes in the air, producing falling ice.

Question 11

Snow

Answer 11

Forms when temps are so cold that water vapor changes directly to a solid.

Question 12

Hail

Answer 12

Balls or lumps of ice that fall from clouds.

Question 13

Polar – Maritime Airmass

Answer 13

Forms over water and the polar regions

Question 14

Rain

Answer 14

The most common form of precipitation

Question 15

Tropical – Maritime Airmass

Answer 15

Forms over the water, and develops over the tropics

Question 16

Polar – Continental Airmass

Answer 16

Forms over land and the polar regions

Question 17

Tropical – Continental Airmass

Answer 17

Forms over land and develops over the tropics

Question 18

Cold front

Answer 18

Where cold air moves under warm air

Question 19

Warm Front

Answer 19

Where warm air moves over cold

Question 20

Thunderstorm

Answer 20

A usually brief, heavy storm that consists of rain string winds lightning, and thunder.

Question 21

Lighting

Answer 21

An electric discharge that takes place between two oppositely charged surfaces.

Question 22

Thunder

Answer 22

The sound is caused by the rapid expansion of air along an electrical strike

Question 23

Tornado

Answer 23

A destructive, rotating column of air that has very high wind speeds

Question 24

Hurricane

Answer 24

A severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds of more than 120 km/h

Question 25

thermometer

Answer 25

An instrument that measures and indicates the temperature

Question 26

Anemometer

Answer 26

An instrument used to measure wind speed