Study Guide p. 83
Air pressure is measured with a _________?
What is barometer?
The layer of the atmosphere is which weather occurs is the ___________.
What is the troposphere?
A body of air that has about the same temperature and moisture is called an ______________.
What is air mass?
What are the large, fluffy-looking clouds with flat bottoms?
What are cumulus clouds?
What is a rumbling resulting from hot air instantly expanding and cooler air rushing in?
The thin blanket of gases that protects and surrounds the earth is the ___________.
What is atmosphere?
Any type of solid or liquid water that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground is called ________.
What is precipitation?
The boundary where two unlike air masses meet is called a __________.
What is a front?
What are the clouds that look like flat blankets and are usually the lowest in the sky?
What are stratus clouds?
What is a funnel-shaped cloud of swirling winds that reaches down to the ground?
What is a tornado?
The weight of the air is called __________?
What is air pressure?
Water vapor in the atmosphere is called ___________.
Raindrops that freeze on their way to the earth and freeze as tiny ice pellets from __________.
What is sleet?
What are the thin, curly-looking clouds seen high in the sky?
What are cirrus clouds?
What is a storm with spiraling winds that forms over the Atlantic Ocean or eastern Pacific Ocean?
What is a hurricane?
The measurement of the distance above sea level is called ___________?
What is altitude?
Raindrops that are pushed up over and over again into tall clouds and freeze before falling to the earth form __________.
What is hail?
Water droplets in the clouds that join together to make larger drops form ___________.
What is rain?
If a cloud has the prefix -nimbo added to it, what does that mean about the cloud?
What is the cloud will produce precipitation?
What is static electricity that moves between clouds or between clouds and the earth?
What is lightning?
The condition of the atmosphere at any moment in time is __________?
What is weather?
Condensed water vapor or ice crystals form ________.
What are clouds?
Ice crystals in the clouds that join together and fall to the earth form __________.
What is snow?
What do you call a scientist who studies the atmosphere and weather?
What is a meteorologist?
What is a prediction of future weather conditions?
What is a weather forecast?