5th science chapter 8
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| people who study the weather | show 🗑
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| show | sun
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| the __________ is a filter screen for solar rays | show 🗑
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| show | greenhouse effect
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| the ______at first gets all the heat of the sun and the reflects it of into the air to give the air second-hand heat | show 🗑
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| show | the axis
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| the _____ is a imaginary line circling the earth midway between the North and South Poles | show 🗑
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| show | Northern and Southern Hemisphere
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| ____ ___ ____ when heavier; cooler air gets underneath it and pushes it upward | show 🗑
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| show | always flow
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| show | trade winds
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| show | polar easterlies
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| the winds between the poles and the equator | show 🗑
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| where is the most changeable weather on the earth | show 🗑
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| ______ air can hold much more water vapor than _____ air can | show 🗑
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| show | humidity
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| if the humidity of air is 100% we say that the air is ________ | show 🗑
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| show | relative humidity
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| the temperature at which cooling air becomes saturated is called the ___ _____ | show 🗑
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| released water vapor leaves the air and changes back into liquid water in a process called | show 🗑
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| show | dew
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| frozen dew | show 🗑
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| show | tropopause
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| the tropopause marks the location of the __________ ________ | show 🗑
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| the three things that can push air up | show 🗑
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| show | air mass
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| a ______ ______ is a large area of land or ocean with nearly the same temperature across its entire surface | show 🗑
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| hot and dry air masses equatoral | show 🗑
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| show | maritime tropical
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| show | maritime polar
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| show | continental polar
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| show | arctic and antarctic
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| a boundary between two air masses is called a _____ | show 🗑
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| at a ____ _____ warm air pushes back cold air but at a ____ _____ cold air pushes back warm air | show 🗑
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| show | ONLY cumulus clouds
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| the bigger "brother" of the cumulus cloud | show 🗑
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| layer clouds | show 🗑
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| wisp or curl clouds | show 🗑
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| combined cloud families | show 🗑
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| the combination cloud of the stratus and cirrus families | show 🗑
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| the combination cloud of the stratus and cumulus clouds | show 🗑
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| the prefix ____- is often placed in front of a cloud name to describe clouds that are at a medium height instead of being close to the ground like stratus cloud or near the top of the troposphere like cirrus clouds | show 🗑
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| medium-height cumulus clouds | show 🗑
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| high, stratus clouds | show 🗑
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| the prefix _______- is a term used to describe a cloud which rain is falling | show 🗑
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| the two chief rain clouds | show 🗑
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| show | fog
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| show | radiation fog
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| show | sea fog
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| _____ fog has two names and is low to the ground | show 🗑
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| rain, sleet, hail, and snow | show 🗑
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| the ordinary precipitation | show 🗑
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| A precipitation in which the ground is below freezing where a gap of warm air forms between the cloud and the ground so the molecules melt then freeze back together | show 🗑
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| ice crystal clumps that have melted and refroze | show 🗑
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| show | dry snow
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| fallen rain that has frozen on the ground after it fell | show 🗑
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| water vapor condensed on sea salt instead of sand | show 🗑
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| show | cumulonimbus or thunderhead
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| show | anvil top
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| rising air going to a cumulonimbus cloud | show 🗑
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| show | downdraft
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| a _________ gets caught repeditally by an updraft and each time gets bigger | show 🗑
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| a spot where positive and negative energy meet | show 🗑
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| the starting molecules of lightning | show 🗑
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| show | sheet lightning
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| sheet lightning that is very far off in the distance is called ____ _________ | show 🗑
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| show | eye
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| show | tornado watch
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| if a tornado is spotted a _____ ______ is issued | show 🗑
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| show | hail, sleet, freezing rain
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| the supernatural weather maker | show 🗑
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| show | cirrus
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| show | cirrocumulus
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| I'm patchy and puffy all bumpy and white I soar in the sky at a medium height | show 🗑
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| show | altostratus
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| show | stratus
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| While other clouds in the sky are found I'm the one who stays near the ground | show 🗑
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| I'm a layer cloud that is true, yet bumpy and rolling I fly in your view | show 🗑
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| show | cirrostratus
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| show | cumul-on-imbus
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| show | cumulus
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| show | nimbostratus
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