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- 3. A LACK OF PRECIPITATION THAT AFFECTS AN AREA'S CROPS IS CALLED AN ___________DROUGHT
- 4. PROCESS THAT OCCURS WHEN A LIQUID BECOMES A GAS
- 6. THE MOVEMENT OF WATER FROM THE AIR TO THE EARTH'S SURFACE AND BACK IS THE WATER CYCLE OR ______ CYCLE
- 7. this type of cloud forms when moist air rises slowly and unevenly.
- 10. the type of front that has a cooler air mass behind, a warmer air mass ahead, and an even warmer air mass above, is a cold occlusion.
- 12. THE AREA OF THE SURFACE OVER WHICH AN AIR MASS FORMED IS ITS ________
- 16. MID-LEVEL CLOUDS THAT HAVE A PUFFY APPEARANCE AND OFTEN APPEAR AS ROWS
- 17. THIS TYPE OF FOG OCCURS WHEN WIND HEATED BY WARM OCEAN WATER BLOWS OVER COOL OCEAN WATER.
- 20. ICE CRYSTALS, USUALLY IN GEOMETRIC SHAPES
- 21. WHEN EVAPORATION AND CONDENSATION ARE OCCURRING AT THE SAME RATE, THE AIR IS SAID TO BE ____.
- 25. THE ____________- FINDEISEN PROCESS IS THE PROCESS IN WHICH RAIN FORMS FROM MELTED SNOWFLAKES
- 26. THE RATIO OF THE AMOUNT OF WATER IN THE AIR TO THE AMOUNT OF WATER IN SATURATED AIR
- 27. AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF HEAVY SNOW AND HIGH WIND
- 28. HAS LAYERS OF GLAZE AND RIME, AND FORMS AS BALLS OF ICE ARE BLOWN BY A THUNDERSTORM UPDRAFT
- 29. LEAST COMMON TYPE OF HIGH-LEVEL CLOUD
- 33. RAINDROPS THAT FREEZE ON THEIR WAY TO THE GROUND
- 34. ________ HEAT DISTRIBUTION IS ONE OF THREE MAJOR FATORS THAT CAUSE WEATHER
- 36. PROCESS BY WHICH FROST FORMS
- 38. THIS IS THE TYPE OF FRONT A FRONTAL CYCLONE BEGINS WITH
- 39. A CLOUD THAT HAS A LOW-LEVEL BASE AND A TOP COMPOSED OF ICE CRYSTALS
- 41. THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH COOLING AIR BEGINS CONDENSING
- 42. Air mass that is formed over an ocean
- 43. MID-LEVEL CLOUDS KNOWN FOR COVERING THE SKY AND PRODUCING STEADY PRECIPITATION
- 44. BROWNISH HAZE THAT DEVELOPS AS COMPLEX MOLECULES ARE BROKEN DOWN INTO OZONE AND OTHER HARMFUL SUBSTANCES
- 45. A BRIEF BUT INTENSE SNOWFALL
- 47. WHEN AN AREA IS RECEIVING LESS PRECIPITATION THAN NORMAL, IT IS UNDERGOING A __________ DROUGHT
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- 1. PROCESS WHEREBY PLANTS RELEASE WATER INTO THE ATMOSPHERE FROM THEIR LEAVES
- 2. This kind of drought would place restrictions on when lawns may be watered.
- 5. THIS TYPE OF AIR MASS IS COLD AND DRY
- 8. TYPE OF FRONT FORMS WHEN A MARITIME POLAR AIR MASS PUSHES INTO A CONTINENTAL TROPICAL AIR MASS
- 9. type of clouds that when put in rows, form a pattern resembling fish scales. "A Mackerel Sky"
- 11. WATER VAPOR WHOSE TEMPERATURE HAS DROPPED BELOW THE FREEZING POINT IS SAID TO BE _____.
- 13. the state of the atmosphere at a certain time and place
- 14. TYPE OF PRECIPITATION THAT CONSISTS OF DROPS OF LIQUID WATER SMALLER THAN RAINDROPS
- 15. LIQUID PRECIPITATION THAT FREEZES WHEN IT HITS THE GROUND OR ANOTHER SUBSTANCE
- 18. RAINDROPS IN THESE AREAS ARE UNUSUALLY LARGE BECAUSE THEY STICK TOGETHER AND GROW LARGER
- 19. BILLOWY, LOW-LEVEL CLOUDS WITH FLAT BASES
- 22. PROCESS RESPONSIBLE FOR CLOUD FORMATION
- 23. TYPE OF SNOW THAT IS SMALL, POWDERY AND DOESN'T STICK TO OBJECTS.
- 24. 2 UNMOVING AIR MASSES OF DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES FORM A _______FRONT
- 30. THIS FORM OF PRECIPITATION CONSISTS OF LARGE DROPS OF LIQUID WATER
- 31. A HIGH-LEVEL CLOUD
- 32. LENS-SHAPED CLOUDS THAT OFTEN FORM NEAR MOUNTAINS ARE ________ CLOUDS
- 35. THIS FRONT FORMS WHEN A COLD FRONT OVERTAKES A WARM FRONT
- 37. TYPE OF FOG THAT FORMS WHEN AIR NEAR THE GROUND COOLS RAPIDLY ON A CLEAR NIGHT
- 40. the scientific term for a gas becoming a liquid
- 45. This type of fog is most likely to occur when a land breeze blows cold, dry air over the warm ocean
- 46. THIS TYPE OF AIR MASS IS WHERE A FRONTAL CYCLONE DRAWS ITS ENERGY FROM.