Vocab
Scientist who studies and predicts the weather.
Who is a meteorologist?
Clouds and rain form as temperatures decrease at this type of front.
What is a cold front?
True or false: Computer models are used to predict the weather.
What is true?
Write the SIX factors meteorologists use to describe the weather.
1. air temperature
2. air pressure
3. wind speed and direction
4. humidity
5. cloud coverage
6. precipitation
Atmospheric conditions, along with short-term changes of a certain place and at a certain time is called this.
What is weather?
This part of the weather varies with the time of day, season, location, and altitude.
What is air temperature?
True or False: Air pressures are large bodies of air with distinct temperatures and moisture characteristics.
What is false?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
Continental air masses form over this.
What is land?
This type of weather occurs with a high pressure system.
What are clear skies and fair weather?
Instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This is created when air moves from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.
What is wind?
The name for liquid (not frozen) precipitation.
What is rain?
Boundary between two air masses
What is a weather front?
Sharp temperature changes, a change in humidity, and rapid shifts in wind speed and direction are all things that happen here.
What is at a frontal boundary?
The 3 types of frozen/freezing precipitation.
What are sleet, snow, and hail?