Vocabulary
The area where one air mass meets another.
What is a front?
This much of the earths surface is covered with water. (number amount)
What is 3/4 or 75%?
The process of changing liquid water to water vapor.
What is evaporation?
This is what we call the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
Meteorologist use charts and maps to record measurements and information from what instruments.
What are satellites and radar?
This instrument points in the direction from which the wind is blowing.
What is a wind vane?
Most of Earth's water is from these bodies of water.
What are oceans and seas?
The process of water vapor becoming liquid water when it cools.
What is condensation?
As air masses move, it brings these TWO things with it to other places.
What are temperature and humidity?
How weather maps who different fronts and weather conditions in different places.
What are symbols?
This type of scientist predicts the weather forecast.
What is a meteorologist?
This is where the most fresh water oceans are found.
What is frozen in glaciers and ice caps?
Any form of water that falls to the Earth.
What is precipitation?
This type of front brings strong winds and brief, heavy precipitation.
What is a cold front?
The period of climatic cycle in which we are in today.
What is a warm period?
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This is the most common salt in our oceans. (Same salt that's in our salt shakers)
What is sodium chloride?
This happens to air pressure as you go higher into the atmosphere.
What is air pressure decreasing?
This type of front brings steady, long-lasting precipitation.
What is a warm front?
This chemical and other pollutants go into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned.
What is carbon dioxide?
This instrument measures wind pressure.
What is anemometer?
These two chemicals are the reason oceans are salty.
What are hydrogen and oxygen?
What is the chemical that the majority of Earth's atmosphere is made up of.
What is nitrogen?
These are the 5 types of clouds.
What are cirrus, altostratus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, and stratus?
Meteorologist measure 4 things over a large area to predict the weather.
What are temperature, precipitation, air pressure, and wind?