Weather

Warm air rises and the cool air sinks demonstrates this type of heat transfer. 

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• Insolation 

____________ is any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface

• snow

• precipitation

• rain 

• sleet

True or False. An open-ended tube that collects rain is called a rain gauge. 

• True

• False

When Earth's rotation causes the wind to curve 

• cloudy 

• Coriolis effect

• high pressure

• low pressure 

How do clouds form?

• Liquid water is heated and evaporates and becomes water vapor in the atmosphere.

• Water vapor in the atmosphere cools and condenses to become tiny liquid water droplets in the atmosphere.

• Tiny liquid water droplets float upwards and gather together in the atmosphere to form a cloud.

Cirrus clouds mean ...

• fair weather (nice)

• thunderstorms

• rain/storms coming

• long periods of rain

Cumulonimbus clouds mean ...

• fair weather (nice)

• thunderstorms

• rain/storms coming

• long periods of rain

Winds are caused by differences in 

• precipitation

• humidity

• air pressure

• turbulance

Which term best describes how the earth's atmosphere is heated?

• Spirally

• Unevenly

• Circularly

• Kinetically

When the static charge in a cloud builds up, it can produce...

• Funnel cloud

• Lighting

• Tornado

• Hurricane