Clouds
Precipitation
Storms
Air Masses and Fronts
Predicting Weather
100
Clouds form when water in the air changes from water vapor back to liquid water in a process called this.
What is condensation?
100
This is the most common form of precipitation?
What is rain?
100
This is a dome of water that forms in an ocean during a hurricane and can cause major damage on land.
What is a storm surge?
100
Where two air masses meet, this forms.
What is a front?
100
This type of scientist studies causes of weather and tries to predict weather.
What is a meteorologist?
200
These clouds cover a large area, making the sky appear gray.
What are stratus clouds?
200
This type of precipitation falls as rain but freezes when it touches the ground.
What is freezing rain?
200
This is the first name of the guitarist in The Sprains.
What is Dan?
200
This type of air mass forms over land and brings cold air.
What is continental polar?
200
This is a powerful type of radar used by scientists who study weather.
What is doppler radar?
300
Scientists classify clouds according to their shape and also this.
What is altitude?
300
Relative humidity is measured using this instrument.
What is a psychrometer?
300
Storms usually form from this type of cloud.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
300
This term refers to cold air.
What is polar?
300
Meterologists use maps, charts, and these to make predictions about weather.
What are computers (or radar)?
400
Thunderstorms form in large cumulonimbus clouds, which are also known as these.
What are thunderheads?
400
Hail forms in these types of clouds.
What are cumulonimbus clouds (thunderheads)?
400
This type of severe weather lasts for only a few minutes but brings extremely strong winds that can pick up cars like toys.
What is a tornado?
400
This term applies to air masses that form over land and bring dry air.
What is continental?
400
A weather map shows air pressure using these units.
What are millibars?
500
This type of cloud is found high in the atmosphere and is made of ice crystals.
What is a cirrus cloud?
500
This is the air temperature in degrees Celcius required for snow to fall. (The air must be this temperature all the way to the ground.)
What is 0 degrees Celcius?
500
This is a tropical cyclone that forms over warm water and brings heavy rains and high speed winds.
What is a hurricane?
500
This word refers to air masses that form over large bodies of water.
What is maritime?
500
Weather map symbols show temperature in this type of degrees.
What are Fahrenheit degrees?
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