Vocab
Weather Forecatsing
Air masses
Water in the Atmosphere
Weather in the Atmosphere
100
A cloud made of ice crystals and forms high in the troposphere is called?
What is Cirrus Clouds
100
A Anemometer measures what?
What is Wind Speed
100
How are air masses classified?
What is the surface over which they form.
100
Refer to the conditions of the atmosphere at a given time and place
What is Weather
100
On a weather map, which front is shown by a line with triangles points on one side
What is Cold Fronts
200
The temperature at which water vapor condense is called?
What is Dew Point
200
A Weather map shows what?
What is Weather Conditions
200
When a warm air mass runs into a cold air mass it creates a?
What is Warm Fronts
200
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is Humidity
200
On a weather map, which front is shown by a line with semicircles extending from one side?
What is Warm fronts
300
Puffy clouds that sometimes look like pieces of floating cotton is called?
What is Cumulus Clouds
300
What measures air pressure?
What is Barometer
300
What occurs when a cold air mass runs into a warm air mass?
What is Cold front
300
Clouds that form on the ground are called what?
What is Fog
300
What is the first sign of a warm front
What is Cirrus clouds
400
A system of winds that rotates around a center of high pressure.
What is Anticyclone
400
Who is someone that study's weather?
What is meteorologists
400
A warm air mass becomes trapped between two cold air masses, this makes what?
What is occluded front
400
This is the percent of water vapor in the air relative to the total amount the air can hold.
What is relative humidity
400
What is the first stage of a thunderstorm?
What is Cumulus cloud
500
A measure of what the temperature feels like because of the humidity.
What is Heat Index
500
What are some way we collect weather data?
What is Weather Station, Weather Balloon, Weather Satellite, and Weather radar
500
Two air masses stop moving when they meet, This makes what?
What is Stationary front
500
A measure of what the temperature feels like because of the humidity.
What is Heat index
500
What type of front is heavy, but short lived?
What is cold front
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