Air Masses and the Atmosphere
Fronts
Cloud Formation
Cyclonic Storms
100

What Layer of the Atmosphere contains weather?

What is the Troposphere!

100

What front brings cumulonimbus clouds

What is a Cold Front!

100

What clouds bring rain or even thunderstorms?

What is numbis clouds

100

How do we track Hurricanes?

What is satellite!

200

What two Properties characterize an Air Mass?

What is Humidity!

What is Temperature!

200

What front brings lots of steady rain?

What is an warm front!

200

What clouds form flat layers?

What is Stratus clouds

200

What must happen to pressure for Cyclonic Storms to form?

What is the pressure must drop very quickly!

300

What happens to air pressure as altitude increases?

lower air pressure

300

Describe an occluded front

A front in which warm air is squeezed in between two cold air masses
300

What clouds from puffy piles?

What is Cumulus Clouds

300

Hurricanes are formed and gain strength where? 

What is the ocean? 

400

What is dew point?

What is when the relative humidity is equal to the absolute humidity!

400

Which front has Cirrus Clouds?

What is a warm Front

400

What clouds form wispy shapes?

What is Cirrus clouds

400

Bomb Cyclones are made where?

What is land? 

500

What type of Air Mass is over most commonly over Canada

What is cp or Continental Polar!

500

Describe stationary fronts


An area of cold air and warm that cannot get past one another

500

An area of low pressure is a great place for what to form? 

what are clouds?

500

What are the three ingredient needed to form a hurricane?

Low pressure or warm air, warm water and the Coriolis Effect

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