5th science Word Scramble

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Question	Answer
people who study the weather	meteorologists
the ___ is the source of all weather	sun
the __________ is a filter screen for solar rays	atmosphere
the function of the atmosphere in preventing the earth's heart from escaping to space is called the __________ _____	greenhouse effect
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	ground
an imaginary line running *through the earth from the North pole to the South pole	the axis
the _____ is a imaginary line circling the earth midway between the North and South Poles	equator
the half of the earth's surface north of the equator is called the ________ _________and the other half south of the equator is the _______ __________	Northern and Southern Hemisphere
____ ___ ____ when heavier; cooler air gets underneath it and pushes it upward	warm air rises
air always _____ ____ from a region of high pressure to fill i a region of low pressure	always flow
equator winds	trade winds
winds from the poles	polar easterlies
the winds between the poles and the equator	prevailing westerlies
where is the most changeable weather on the earth	between the poles and the equator
______ air can hold much more water vapor than _____ air can	warm; cold
we refer to the amount of water vapor in air as the ______ of the air	humidity
if the humidity of air is 100% we say that the air is ________	saturated
we refer to the measure of humidity as the ________ ________	relative humidity
the temperature at which cooling air becomes saturated is called the ___ _____	dew point
released water vapor leaves the air and changes back into liquid water in a process called	condensation
___forms on the ground as the water vapor in the air condenses	dew
frozen dew	frost
the troposphere's topmost boundary	tropopause
the tropopause marks the location of the __________ ________	temperature inversion
the three things that can push air up	solar heating, mountains, and air fronts
a ___ ____ is a single large unit of air with uniform temperature and humidity characteristics (and it forms over a source region)	air mass
a ______ ______ is a large area of land or ocean with nearly the same temperature across its entire surface	source region
hot and dry air masses equatoral	continental tropical
moist warm equatoral air masses	maritime tropical
cold moist arctic air masses	maritime polar
cold and dry arctic air masses	continental polar
_____ and ________ air masses, which develop over the ice and snow of the poles, have very cold and rather dry air	arctic and antarctic
a boundary between two air masses is called a _____	front
at a ____ _____ warm air pushes back cold air but at a ____ _____ cold air pushes back warm air	warm front and cold front
heap and pile clouds	ONLY cumulus clouds
the bigger "brother" of the cumulus cloud	cumulonimbus
layer clouds	ONLY stratus clouds
wisp or curl clouds	cirrus clouds
combined cloud families	combination clouds
the combination cloud of the stratus and cirrus families	cirrostratus
the combination cloud of the stratus and cumulus clouds	stratocumulus
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	alto-
medium-height cumulus clouds	altocumulus
high, stratus clouds	altostratus
the prefix _______- is a term used to describe a cloud which rain is falling	nimbo
the two chief rain clouds	nimbostratus cumulonimbus
___ is a special type of cloud at ground level	fog
________ ___ forms on cool clear nights especially during the long nights of autumn	radiation fog
___ ___ forms when warm air moves over cold water	sea fog
_____ fog has two names and is low to the ground	steam
rain, sleet, hail, and snow	a few forms of precipitation
the ordinary precipitation	rain
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	wet snow
ice crystal clumps that have melted and refroze	snowflakes
___ ____ falls when the temperature of the air is well below freezing ice crystal falling through very cold air do not melt and stick together but travel separately	dry snow
fallen rain that has frozen on the ground after it fell	freezing rain
water vapor condensed on sea salt instead of sand	tropical rain
a thunderstorm is produced by the ____________ or the ___________	cumulonimbus or thunderhead
the flat top of a cumulonimbus clouds	anvil top
rising air going to a cumulonimbus cloud	an updraft
falling air, cause: raindrops	downdraft
a _________ gets caught repeditally by an updraft and each time gets bigger	hailstone
a spot where positive and negative energy meet	electric current
the starting molecules of lightning	step leader
when all we can see of lightning is a bright flash	sheet lightning
sheet lightning that is very far off in the distance is called ____ _________	heat lightning
the middle of a tornado	eye
meteorologists issue a _______ _____ if weather conditions could produce a tornado	tornado watch
if a tornado is spotted a _____ ______ is issued	tornado warning
what are three other icy precipitations besides (dry or wet) snow	hail, sleet, freezing rain
the supernatural weather maker	God
I fly high and I am easy to sight, for I look like a mare's tail all wispy and white	cirrus
a heap cloud am I, but I fly so high that I look like fish scales in the sky	cirrocumulus
I'm patchy and puffy all bumpy and white I soar in the sky at a medium height	altocumulus
I'm a thickening sheet at medium height that tries very hard to bock the sunlight	altostratus
like a blanket that's darkish-gray I fly low to drizzle your day	stratus
While other clouds in the sky are found I'm the one who stays near the ground	fog
I'm a layer cloud that is true, yet bumpy and rolling I fly in your view	startocumulus
I'm a thin cloud sheet that sails very high I cover or dull the deep blue of the sky	cirrostratus
I'm a heavy blanket all dark and gray when I bring rain I stay for the day	cumul-on-imbus
I'm small and light and puffy and white I'm seen in good weather when the sun shines bright	cumulus
on hot summer days I thunder and shout pouring raindrops and hail until I wear out	nimbostratus

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