Vocabulary
Clouds
Weather
Fronts
Transfer of Heat
100
The process which water changes from liquid to gas
What is evaporation?
100
Water vapor, Dust particles, and temperatures at or below the dew point
What is the cloud recipe?
100
Evaporation and Condensation
What two processes form clouds?
100
The boundary where unlike air masses meet but don't mix.
What is a front?
100
Transfer of heat through a liquid.
What is convection?
200
Huge body of air that has similar temperatures, humidity, and pressure.
What is an air mass?
200
0-2000 meters
What is range of height is the lowest level of clouds?
200
The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place?
What is weather?
200
Maritime Tropical, Maritime Polar, Continental Tropical, and Continental Polar
What are the 4 types of fronts?
200
Transfer of heat by direct contact.
What is conduction?
300
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
300
Stratus, Nimbostratus, Cumulus, Cumulonimbus, Stratocumulus
What clouds form at the lowest level?
300
The oceans and tides cause different types of weather
What causes weather?
300
Maritime Polar.
What type of front is cold and wet?
300
Direct transfer of heat through energy through space by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
400
The temperature which condensation begins at.
What is a dew point?
400
Cirrus clouds
Which cloud forms at the highest altitude?
400
Cold fronts can cause storms.
What causes storms?
400
A cold and warm air mass meets but they can't move passed each other?
What is stationary front?
400
A liquid rises due to heat and then condenses so it falls back down and the process repeats.
What is convection current?
500
The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to low pressure.
What is wind?
500
Altocumulus and Altostratus.
What two clouds form at the middle level?
500
Approximitly 93 million miles and 8 minutes.
How far away is the Sun from the Earth and how long does it take for its energy to reach here?
500
A warm air mass gets caught between two cold air masses and is pushed upwards.
What is an Occluded front?
500
It is less dense, so it rises.
Why does hot air rise?
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