Air Masses
An air mass that does not move.
What is Stationary?
The atmosphere is mostly made up of these two gases.
What is nitrogen and oxygen?
Water is always moving between the surface of Earth and the atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
The type of storm always form over and pulls energy from a large body of warm water.
What is a Hurricane?
An example of a storm.
What is hurricane, tornado, and thunderstorm.
The term describe the boundary where two air masses meet.
What is a Front?
The earth's atmosphere includes.
What is air, water, and energy?
A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is Humidity?
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere.
What is a Storm?
A storm associated with the term "lake effect".
What is a winter storm?
A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height.
What is Air Mass?
The thin envelope of gases that surrounds the planet.
What is atmosphere?
Molecules of liquid water in oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water are heated by the sun.
What is evaporation?
An overflowing of water in a normally dry area.
What is a flood?
A person that collects and analyze weather data and uses the results to make weather forecasts.
What is a Meteorologist?
This front forms when a fast-moving warm air mass overtakes a slow moving cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the most ozone.
What is stratosphere?
Forms when water vapor in the air condenses to form liquid water or ice crystals.
What is clouds?
A long period with little or no rainfall.
What is a drought?
The front that is represented by blue lines with triangles.
What is a Cold Front?
This air mass forms over the ocean and is very humid.
What is Maritime Air Mass?
Heat is transferred in three ways.
What is convection, conduction, and radiation?
Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
The four types of severe storms.
What is Thunderstorm, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and Winter Storms.
The higher the altitude, the lower the air pressure.
What is True?