Clouds
Precipitation
Global Position
Air Masses and Fronts
Tornadoes and Hurricanes
100
A puffy looking white or grey thing in the sky
What is a cloud?
100

most of the water that evaporates into the atmosphere return to earth as

What is precipitaion?

100
A word that starts with G and stands for a spherical representation of the earth
What is a globe?
100
A large body of air with relatively uniform pressure, temperature, and humidity
What is an air mass?
100

Tornadoes start as the result of updrafts that form what

What is a thunderstorm?

200
One of the four basic cloud types. These form low in the sky and are named after the Latin word for "layer".
What are stratus clouds?
200

The most common form of precipitation

What is rain?

200
Mr. Long's favorite type of imaginary lines around the earth (the ones that run north and south)
What are lines of longitude?
200
The coldest of the three basic types of air masses.
What is an arctic air mass?
200

A funnel of air whirling both around and up

What is a vortex?

300
One of the four basic clouds. These are puffy in appearance and are named after the Latin word meaning "a pile".
What are cumulus clouds?
300

Process that deals with how rain is formed in cold clouds

What is Bergeron?

300
Imaginary lines that run east and west across the earth
What are lines of latitude?
300
The air mass sub-category that indicates it was formed over the ocean
What is maritime?
300

When the funnel of air touches the ground it starts what stage of the tornado

What is organizing?

400
One of the four basic clouds. These are generally formed in mountainous regions and appear oval in shape.
What are lenticular clouds?
400

Formed when ice crystal or raindrop is blown back into the cloud by an upward gust of wind

What is hail?

400
The point at which the earth is farthest from the sun
What is aphelion?
400
The air mass sub-category that indicates it was formed over land
What is continental?
400

Hurricanes are more properly called what?

What is tropical cyclones?

500
One of the four basic clouds. These are found at the top of the troposphere and are made of tiny ice crystals.
What are cirrus clouds?
500

In warm clouds meteorologist think that rain forms according to what process

What is collision-coalescence process?

500
The point at which the earth is closest to the sun
What is perihelion?
500
The type of front that typically forms when two air masses traveling in the same direction collide.
What is an occluded front?
500

The most pronounced feature of a hurricane

What is the eye?

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