Water in the atmosphere
Precipitation
Air masses and fronts
Storms
Forecasting the weather
100
The process of which water travels through the atmosphere and the ground through evaporation, precipitation, and condensation
What is The Water Cycle
100
Liquid precipitation that is at least 5 millimeters in diameter
What is Rain
100
A large body of air that has similar air pressure, temperature, and relative humidity.
What is Air mass
100
A violent disruption in the atmosphere.
What is Storm
100
A person who studies and predicts the weather
What is a meteoroligist
200
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is Humidity
200
drops of water that immediately freezes in the air when it falls.
What is snow
200
The boundary from where two air masses meet.
What is A front
200
A spinning cyclone that has warm humid air mass and dry cold air mass and spinning columns of air.
What is a tornado
200
An educated guess
What is a Prediction
300
The percentage of water vapor in the air
What is relative humidity
300
A type of precipitation that has ice particles less than 5 millimeters
What is sleet?
300
A cold, humid air mass
What is Maritime Continental
300
A tropical storm that is also called a Typhoon.
What is a hurricane
300
A diagram that shows weather around the country using symbols
What is a weather map
400
An instrument used to measure relative humidity
What is a psychrometer
400
Chunks of ice that float around in the clouds until they get bigger enough that they fall
What is hail
400
A cold dry air mass
What is a Continental polar
400
A storm where ther is a lot of snow and high winds.
What is a snowstorm
400
A curved line that shows area with similar tempurature
What is Isotherm
500
when warm air rises, taking water vapor with it, and cools, cold water can't hold as much as warm air. so when the water freezes, these from.
What is a cloud
500
Rain that freezes when it touches a cold surface
What is freezing rain
500
A front where two cold air masses force a warm air mass upward.
What is An Occluded front
500
A group of states where tornadoes most occur
What is Tornado Alley
500
A curved line that shows areas with similar air pressure
What is Isobar
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