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| What are weather satellites? | Devices in space used to take pictures of clouds and collect other weather information. |
| What are cumulous clouds? | Puffy clouds that look like caluiflower |
| What are stratus clouds? | Flat gray blankets that seem to cover the sky. |
| What are cirrus clouds? | Look like commas and whisps of hair high in the sky. |
| What is a cloud? | Masses of tiny droplets of water that condensed from the air. |
| What does the word "nimbus" mean? | A Latin word that means "rain." |
| What is a weather forecaster? | Someone who makes predictions about the weather. |
| What are GOES? | GOES or Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite is a very important type of weather satellite. |
| What is a tornado? | A funnel shaped storm of spinning wind. |
| What is a hurricane? | A large violent storm that forms over warm ocean water. |
| What is a thunderstorm? | A storm that produces heavy rain, strong winds, lightning, and thunder. |
| What is a warm front? | Forms when a warm air mass moves into a cold air mass. |
| What is a front? | A place where two different air masses meet. |
| What is a cold front? | orms when a cold air mass moves into a warm air mass. |
| What is an air mass? | A body of air that has the same general temperature and air pressure throughout. |
| What is a flash flood? | A sudden and violent flood. |
| What is a low-pressure area? | An area of lower air pressure than that of the surrounding air. |
| What is a high-pressure area? | An area of higher air pressure than that of the surrounding air. |
| What type of weather does a high-pressure area usually bring? | Usually brings dry, clear weather. |
| What type of weather does a low-pressure area usually bring? | Usually brings wind, clouds and rain. |
| Do lightning and thunder happen at the same time? | Yes, lightning and thunder happen at the same time. |
| When do thunderstorms begin to form? | Thunderstorms begin to form when warm moist air rises from the earths surface. |
| Why do we see lightning before we hear thunder? | We see lightning before we hear thunder because light travels faster than the speed of sound. |
| What type of weather problems do thunderstorms cause? | Thunderstorms can cause flashfloods, lightning can injure people and they can cause fires, damage power lines and stop the flow of electricity. |
| What is the largest storm on earth? | A hurricane is the largest storm on earth. |
| The hole in the middle of the hurricane is called? | The eye. |
| What is another word for a cumulonimbus cloud? | Thunderhead is another word for a cumulonimbus cloud. |
