Weather terms
Precipitation
Fronts
Weather Forecasting
Weather
100

What is a land breeze?

wind that blows from land to sea.

100
Any type of solid or liquid water that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground.
What is precipitation?
100
This occurs when a warm air mass moves over a slower cool air mass.
What is a warm front?
100
Scientists who study the atmosphere and the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100
A funnel-shaped cloud of swirling winds that reach down to the ground.
What is a tornado?
200

What is a sea breeze?

wind that blows from sea to land

200
Raindrops that are pushed up over and over again into tall clouds and freeze before falling to the earth form this.
What is hail?
200
This occurs when air masses push against each other but do not move.
What is a stationary front?
200
An instrument that shows the direction wind is blowing from.
What is a wind vane?
200
This often occurs when a large, warm air mass quickly rises above a cold air mass.
What is a thunderstorm?
300

What is the Gulf Stream?

a warm current that flows out of the Gulf of Mexico and northward through the Atlantic Ocean

300
Raindrops that freeze on their way to the earth and land as tiny ice pellets form this.
What is sleet?
300
This forms when a cool air mass pushes itself under a weather warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
300
Instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
A storm with spiraling winds that form over the ocean.
What is a hurricane.
400

What is the jet stream?

Powerful, air streams a few miles wide moving generally from west to east at about 100 miles per hour 30,000 feet above the earth. When they move south, southern weather can turn cold. and OR moves west to east and changes location based on global conditions.

400
Water droplets in the clouds that join together to make larger drops form this.
What is rain?
400
A body of air that has about the same temperature and moisture is called this.
What is an air mass?
400
Instrument used to measure the speed of wind.
What is an anemometer?
400

What is infiltration?

water that seeps through holes in the ground

500

What are global winds?

 winds that blow steadily from specific directions over long distances

500
Ice crystals in the clouds that join together and fall to the earth form this.
What is snow?
500
The boundary where two unlike air masses meet.
What is a front?
500
The condition of the atmosphere at any moment in time.
What is weather?
500

what are the stages of the water cycle?

Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection and transpiration

M
e
n
u