2. What happens when air rises?
3. Because cold air cannot hold as much moisture as warm air, the water condenses to form:
4. What are 3 things that could cause air to rise?
5. When cloud particles are too heavy to stay in the air, they fall to the ground as what?
6. What are the 5 forms of precipitation?
7. When does rain develop?
8. Rain can also begin as what?
9. When the flakes fall from the freezing level through the warmer air, the flakes melt into what ?
10. Intense thunderstorms produce large frozen raindrops called what ?
11. What is formed when water freezes onto falling snowflakes ?
12. What sends the pellets back to the top of the storm after they have reached the bottom of the cloud ?
13. The stronger the updraft, the more times the hail goes through the cycle, so it does what ?
14. What is it called when rain falls through air that is below freezing, but the drops don't freeze?
15. What causes the thin layer of ice to form ?
16. What is sleet ?
17. Ice crystals that collect to each other as they fall to the surface are called what ?
Science Grade 2 Goal 2 - The learner will build an understanding of the changes in weather. 2.1 - Describe weather by measurable quantities:?* Temperature. ?* Wind direction. ?* Wind speed.?* Precipitation.? 2.2 - Assess weather changes from day to day and over the seasons.
Science Grade 5 Goal 4 - The learner will build an understanding of weather and climate.
Created by Jackie Parker (Iredell-Statesville Schools)