Vocabulary
The state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place
What is weather?
What is a high pressure?
What is a violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground?
What is a tornado?
A person who studies the weather
Who is a meteorologist?
What forms as warm air is forced upward, expands, nad cools?
What is a cloud?
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
What is a low pressure?
What is a large, swirling, low pressure system that forms over the warm Atlantic Ocean called?
What is a hurricane?
This shows the weather conditions using symbols.
This cloud forms in layers or smooth even sheets in the sky?
What is a stratus cloud?
A measure of the amount of water vapor present in the air compared to the amount needed for saturation at a specific temperature
What is relative humidity?
What weather instrument measures the atmospheric pressure?
What is a barometer?
What is a storm similar to a hurricane called in the Pacific Ocean?
What is a typhoon?
What forms in cumulonimbus clouds when water freezes around a small nucleus of ice?
What is hail?
What is the root that means "dark rain cloud" in Latin?
What is nimbus?
The temperature at which air is saturated and condensation forms
What is dew point?
This type of front is stalled and rain may linger for days.
What is a stationary front?
What organization issues a warning or watch about storms?
What is the National Weather Service?
What does a blue line with triangles represent on a weather map?
What is a cold front?
What is cirrus cloud?
a boundary between air masses
What is a front?
The temperatures plummet with this type of weather front.
What is a cold front?
When a tornado has wind speeds of 420 to 512 km/hour and it destroys everything in its path, it is classified as a ____________.
What is an F5?
Two full feathers on a weather symbol equals how many knots?
What is 20 knots?
This cloud is puffy, white, and often have flat bases.
What is a cumulus cloud?