Up & down & all around
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
This system of air mass comes cool air sinking and has clear, fair weather.
What is a high pressure system?
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
When two air masses interact, it is called this.
What is a front?
This kind of severe weather usually occurs at a cold front during thunderstorms and is a result of wind moving in a spiral pattern.
What is a tornado?
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation?
This system of air mass is formed through warm air rising and results in cloudy, rainy weather.
What is a low pressure system?
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
This kind of front is caused by a fast moving high pressure system over taking a low pressure system and results in severe, stormy weather.
What is a cold front?
This is a storm that forms over the ocean from a extreme low pressure system. It usually begins as a group of thunderstorms joining over warm water.
What is a hurricane?
Amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
This air mass forms over oceans and is above 60 degrees in latitude.
What is a maritime polar air mass?
This is formed when air vapor condenses.
What are clouds?
This kind of front is caused by a low pressure system that rises up over a high pressure system and causes a band of rainy weather along the front.
What is a warm front?
This occurs usually after a torrential downpour where the ground cannot infiltrate all the water. They often occur without warning.
What is a flash flood?
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets.
What is condensation?
This air mass forms over land below 25 degrees in latitude.
What is a continental tropical air mass?
This kind of weather is created by a low pressure system being overtaken quickly by a high pressure system and is electrically unstable.
What is a thunderstorm?
This kind of front is caused by a low pressure system and a high pressure system meeting, but neither overtake the other. This usually results in days of rain.
What is a stationary front?
This kind of weather usually occurs during thunderstorms and forms very high in the atmosphere. Precipitation is frozen and can be anywhere from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a softball or bigger.
What is a hail storm?
Water that is found underground.
What is groundwater?
This air mass is warm, moist, and unstable.
What is a maritime tropical air mass?
The weather of a place over a long time.
What is climate?
This kind of front results from 3 different pressure systems meeting. The lowest pressure front rises up in between the other two pressure systems.
What is an occluded front?
This kind of disaster usually happens as a result of an earthquake under the ocean. Before it hits, the ocean will pull back from the shore.
What is a tsunami?