What is weather
What is weather cont./etc.
Weather Patterns
Weather Patterns, etc.
Weather Forecasting
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This is the amount of water vapor in the air comared to what it can hold at a specific temperature.
What is relative humidity?
100
This is a stratus cloud near the ground that forms when air is cooled to its dew point.
What is fog?
100
This is a large body of air with properties like the part of the earth's surface over which it forms.
What is air mass?
100
This type of air pressure is associated with stormy weather.
What is low pressure?
100
This front occurs when warmer air advances over colder air.
What is a warm front?
200
This is the state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place.
What is weather?
200
This determines what type of precipitation "falls"
What is temperature?
200
This front occurs when air masses and their boundaries stop advancing, or moving.
What is a stationary front?
200
Air pressure is measured with this.
What is a barometer?
200
These bars show areas of equal pressure.
What is an isobar?
300
This is the amount of water vapor present in the air.
What is humidity?
300
This is water of any state that falls from the clouds.
What is precipitation?
300
When the air is superheated, the air expands rapidly and then contracts, forming sound waves. This is called....
What is thunder?
300
Fair, or good weather is associated with this type of pressure areas.
What is high pressure?
300
These people predict weather.
What are meteorologists?
400
This is the temperature at which the air is saturated and condensation forms.
What is dew point?
400
Clouds are classified according to these two factors.
What is shape and height?
400
This front happens when colder air advances under warm air
What is a cold front?
400
This happens when oppositely charged areas of clouds, or when land and clouds are oppositely charged and a current flows between these areas.
What is lightning?
400
This shows weather conditions in a specific location.
What is a station model?
500
These are the three main cloud types.
What is stratus, cumulus, and cirrus?
500
This is what forms when warm air is forced upward and cools.
What is condensation and clouds?
500
This front involves three air masses of different temperatures.
What is an occluded front?
500
This is a bar on a weather map that shows areas of equal temperature
What is isotherm?
500
This service warns us of dangerous weather conditions.
What is The National Weather Service?
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