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Chapter 11 Weather

Chapter 11 Weather. Weather. Low, layered gray clouds that produce drizzle. 100. Answer. What are stratus clouds?. Back to Jeopardy. The highest clouds are known as this?. 200. Answer. What are cirrus?. Back to Jeopardy. Thick, puffy clouds. 300. Answer. What are cumulus clouds?.

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Chapter 11 Weather

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  1. Chapter 11 Weather

  2. Weather

  3. Low, layered gray clouds that produce drizzle. 100 Answer

  4. What are stratus clouds? Back to Jeopardy

  5. The highest clouds are known as this? 200 Answer

  6. What are cirrus? Back to Jeopardy

  7. Thick, puffy clouds. 300 Answer

  8. What are cumulus clouds? Back to Jeopardy

  9. Tornadoes often form from a type of cumulonimbus cloud called a ______________. 400 Answer

  10. What is a wall cloud? Back to Jeopardy

  11. High, white, feathery clouds usually associated with fair weather. 500 Answer

  12. What are cirrus clouds? Back to Jeopardy

  13. Measure of the amount of water vapor that air is holding compared to the amount that it can hold at a specific temperature. Answer 100

  14. What is relative humidity? Back to Jeopardy

  15. At higher temperature, air can hold ________water vapor as compared to air at lower temperatures. Answer 200

  16. What is more? Back to Jeopardy

  17. When air holds all the water vapor it possibly can, we say it’s _______________. Answer 300

  18. What is saturated? Back to Jeopardy

  19. The interaction of air, water, and ____________results in weather. 400 Answer

  20. What is the sun? Back to Jeopardy

  21. Water can form on surfaces at night when the air is clear because the air near the ground cools to its ___________________. 500 Answer

  22. What is dew point? Back to Jeopardy

  23. One place where low pressure systems form is along _________. 100 Answer

  24. What are fronts? Back to Jeopardy

  25. An air mass that forms off the southeast coast of the U.S. is ________ and ___________. 200 Answer

  26. What is warm and moist? Back to Jeopardy

  27. When water droplets form around dust particles and become heavy enough to fall out of the clouds, we have _____________. 300 Answer

  28. What is precipitation? Back to Jeopardy

  29. Snow that melts in the air and then refreezes near the ground becomes _______. 400 Answer

  30. What is sleet? Back to Jeopardy

  31. ________pressure air usually means good weather because the air’s sinking motion makes it difficult for air to rise and clouds to form. 500 Answer

  32. What is high? Back to Jeopardy

  33. A violent, whirling wind that moves in a narrow path over land. 100 Answer

  34. What is a tornado? Back to Jeopardy

  35. Violent storms generally form along a(n) _____________. 200 Answer

  36. What is a front? Back to Jeopardy

  37. ____________form over tropical oceans. 300 Answer

  38. What are hurricanes? Back to Jeopardy

  39. ___________results from the build-up of positive and negative electrical charges in clouds. 400 Answer

  40. What is lightning? Back to Jeopardy

  41. ______forms when snow passes through warm air, melts, and refreezes; _______forms when drops of water freeze in layers. 500 Answer

  42. What is sleet and hail, respectively. Back to Jeopardy

  43. A ________forms where cold and warm air meet. 100 Answer

  44. What is a front? Back to Jeopardy

  45. A line that connects points of equal temperature is called a(n) __________. 200 Answer

  46. What is isotherm? Back to Jeopardy

  47. A ____________forecasts the weather using data collected from many sources. 300 Answer

  48. What is a meteorologist? Back to Jeopardy

  49. An ______________ is a large body of air that has the same properties as Earth’s surface over which it develops. 400 Answer

  50. What is an air mass? Back to Jeopardy

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