Water in the Air
Air Masses/Fronts
Severe Weather
Forecasting the Weather
Clouds
100
The amount of water vapor in the air compared to the maximum it can hold
What is relative humidity?
100
An air mass that forms in northern Canada
What is continental Polar?
100
The most powerful storms on Earth
What are hurricanes?
100
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is thermometer?
100
A collection of missions of tiny water droplets or ice crystals.
What is a cloud?
200
The process in which water vapor cools and turns to liquid.
What is condensation?
200
When warm air moves over cold air and replaces it.
What is a warm front?
200
Only about 1% of thunderstorms produce them.
What is a tornado?
200
Is used to track local precipitation
What is Doppler Radar?
200
Ways that clouds are classified
What is altitude and formation?
300
It forms when rain falls through a layer of freezing air.
What is sleet?
300
When a cold air mass meets a warm air mass
What is a stationary front?
300
It is one of the most dangerous parts of a thunderstorm.
What is lightning?
300
An instrument that is used to measure air pressure
What is barometer?
300
The prefix used to describe clouds that form at high altitudes.
What is cirro?
400
When air holds all of the water it can hold at a given temperature?
What is saturated?
400
Areas that have lower pressure than the surrounding areas.
What is cyclone?
400
A wall of water that builds up over the ocean because of the strong winds and low atmospheric pressure.
What is a storm surge?
400
These connect points of equal air pressure on a weather map.
What are isobars?
400
A stratus cloud that forms near the ground.
What is fog?
500
An instrument that is used to measure relative humidity.
What is psychrometer?
500
This creates a dry and clear weather forecast.
What is anticyclone?
500
Because of the Coriolis effect a storm turns this direction in the northern hemisphere
What is counterclockwise?
500
The type of information that you can get from a weather map.
What is the locations of fronts?
500
Prefix attached to types of clouds that produce precipitation.
What is nimbo/nimbus?
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