Weather Vocabulary I
A prediction or estimate of future events, especially of weather
What is a Forecast?
The day-to-day state of the atmosphere
What is the weather?
Similar weather for a certain number of days
What are weather patterns?
The name of the scientist who predicts the weather.
What is a Meteorologist?
The boundary between an advancing warm air mass and a receding cooler air mass.
What is a warm front?
Meteorologists are they usually standing in front of this during the broadcast.
What is a weather map?
The border between an advancing mass of cold air and a receding mass of warmer air
What is a cold front?
The mechanical or chemical processes that break rocks into smaller pieces and sometimes change the chemical composition
What is Weathering?
Bodies of air extending over large areas that develop and retain specific characteristics of pressure, temperature, and humidity
What is air mass?
Occurs when solid fragments of weathered rock are eroded (moved) and then dropped into a new place by wind, water, ice, and gravity.
What is Sediment Deposition?