Elements of Weather
Measurements of Weather
Clouds and Cloud Formation
What Influences Weather
Climate
100
Any form of water that falls to Earth's surface from the clouds.
What is precipitation?
100
A tool to measure precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
100
Water vapor that condenses very near Earth's surface
What is fog?
100
A boundary between the air masses.
What is a front?
100
The weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
The measure of hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
200
A tool to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
200
A collection of small water droplets or ice crystals that are suspended in the air.
What is clouds?
200
Where cold and warm air stop warming.
What is fronts forming?
200
Currents on the surface of the ocean?
What is surface currents?
300
The amount of water vapor needed to reach saturation.
What is relative humidity?
300
A tool to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
When water vapor condenses, or changes from a gas to a liquid.
What is clouds forming?
300
A large volume of air in which temperature and moisture content are nearly the same throughout.
What is air mass?
300
The height of an area above sea level.
What is elevation?
400
The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
400
A thing that measures visibility.
What is meteorology?
400
When a warm air mass rises over cold mass.
What is frontal lifting?
400
Air that sinks slowly down.
What is a high-pressure system?
400
The angler distance in degrees north and south from the equator.
What is latitude?
500
A measure of the transparency of the atmosphere.
What is visibility?
500
A tool that measures relative humidity.
What is a vintage psychrometer?
500
When an obstacle, such as a mountain range, forces a mass of air upward.
What is orthographic lifting?
500
Air rises and so has lower air pressure than the areas around is
What is a low-pressure system
500
When surface features of an area combine.
What is topography?
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