8.1 Water In The Atmosphere
8.2 Precipitation
8.3 Air Masses And Forms
8.4 Storms
8.5 Predicting The Weather
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What are the three main types of clouds?
Cirrus, cumulus, and stratus.
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What is precipitation?
Any form of water that falls form teh clouds to Earth's surface.
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What are the four types of air masses?
Maritime tropical, continental tropical, maritime polar and continental polar
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What is a storm?
a violent disturbence in the atmosphere
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Who are meteorologists?
scientists who study the causes of weather and predict it
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How do clouds form?
When water vapor in the air condences
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What are the types of precipitation?
rain, snow, sleet, hail, and freezing rain.
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How are air masses moved?
By prevailing westerlies and jet streams
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What are thunderstorms?
small storm that brings heavy precipitation, thunder and lightning
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What do meteorologists use to predict weather?
maps, charts, and computers
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What is humidity?
The measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
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What is most common kind of precipitation?
rain
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What are the 4 types of fronts?
cold, warm, stationary and occcluded fronts
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What are tornadoes?
rapidly whirling clouds that reach down from a strom to touch Earth's surface
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What are isobars?
lines joining places on the weather map that have the same temperature and pressure
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How is relative humidity measured?
With a psychrometer.
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What kind of clouds does hail form in?
cumulonimbus during thunderstorms
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What kinds weather do cyclones bring?
clouds, wind and precipitation.
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What should you do to stay safe in a snowstorm?
Find shelter from the wind
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What are Isotherms?
lines joining places on a weather map that have the same temperature.
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What is dew point?
the temperature that condensation begins.
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How many sides do snowflakes have?
6
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What kinds of weather do anticyclones bring?
dry, clear weather
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What is a hurricane?
a tropical cyclone that has really fast winds and a lot of rain
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What are the standard symbols on a weather map?
fronts, high and low pressure, types of precpitation, and temperatures
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