Weather or Not??

Wind is caused by...............

• The uneven heating of the Earth causing warm air to rise, cool, and fall back to the Earth.

• low temperatures in the ionosphere

• climatic change

• air masses

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High feathery clouds are...

• stratus

• cumulus

• cirrus

• cumulonimbus

Stratus clouds that touch the ground are commonly called

• convection

• cumulonimbus

• cumulus

• fog.

Clouds form when

• dew forms in the summer.

• water vapor condenses in the sky around tiny particles.

• the sun is not out.

• in the exosphere.

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Stratus clouds...

• are usually tiny ice crystals.

• are layered or "sheet" clouds in the sky.

• are fluffy and puffy clouds.

• thin wispy clouds.

Cumulus clouds are usually

• puffy white clouds.

• usually frozen.

• touch the ground.

• are found only in winter.

The major difference between weather and climate is..

• weather helps us communicate more on a daily schedule

• climate will not change over time.

• weather is the day to day change in our atmosphere.

• weather takes into account precipitation and climate doesn't.

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Precipitation that leaves a cloud as a liquid and hits the Earth as a liquid is called...

• hail.

• sleet.

• snow.

• rain.

Precipitation that starts as a solid, melts on the way down, freezes quickly again before hitting the ground is...

• sleet.

• hail.

• rain.

• dew.

Precipitation that leaves as a liquid, falls and gets blown up, falls, gets blown back up, fall, blown back up..... until it is too big and falls to the Earth as a solid is....

• snow

• freezing rain

• hail.

• sleet

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