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What cloud looks like a grey blanket covering the sky?
a) stratus
b) cumulus
c) cirrus
d) fog

What clouds are streaky, feather like, and can be made of ice crystals?
a) cumulus
b) stratus
c) cirrus
d)

What clouds are big, fluffy, and usually indicate fair weather?
a) cirrus
b) cumulus
c) fog
d) stratus

What cloud forms on the ground from temperatures falling at night time and condensation occuring near the ground.
a) cirruc
b) fog
c) stratus
d) cumulus

This process is when a liquid is evaporated from a plant.
a) condensation
b) transpiration
c) evaporation
d) precipitation

This process is when a liquid is warmed and turns into a water vapor.
a) condensation
b) transpiration
c) precipitation
d) evaporation

This process is when liquid falls from the clouds.
a) precipitation
b) condensation
c) evaporation
d) transpiration

This process is when a water vapor is turned into a liquid by cooling.
a) transpiration
b) condensation
c) evaporation
d) precipitation

What precipitation falls when the air is less than 32 degrees F?
a) rain
b) snow
c) hail
d) sleet

This precipitation falls as rain and then hits air less than 32 degrees F.
a) hail
b) snow
c) sleet
d) rain

This precipitation happens when air pushes the precipitation back up into the clouds multiple times.
a) rain
b) snow
c) sleet
d) hail

This layer is the layer that has our weather.
a) Mesosphere
b) Thermosphere
c) Tropsphere
d) Stratosphere

What winds may bring us (in the East) a blizzard?
a) trade winds
b) polar easterlies
c) prevailing westerlies
d) doldrums

What wind help use figure out what our weather will be like?
a) doldrums
b) trade winds
c) polar easterlies
d) prevailing westerlies

What layer of the atmosphere burns up meteors?
a) Thermosphere
b) Stratosphere
c) Troposphere
d) Mesosphere

This is the layer where airplanes fly to avoid the weather.
a) stratosphere
b) thermospshere
c) mesosphere
d) troposphere

What breezes cause wind to be pushed out from the land over water?
a) sea breeze
b) land breeze
c)
d)

What breeze causes wind to be pushed from the water to the land?
a) sea breeze
b) land breeze
c)
d)

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