Weather Factors
The state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place.
What is Weather?
This is used to measure wind direction.
What is a Wind Vane?
These form as warm air is forced upward, expands, and cools.
What are clouds?
This is water falling from clouds
What is Precipitation?
A large body of air.
What is air mass?
This provides almost all of Earth's energy.
What is the Sun?
This is used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
Clouds are classified mainly by.
What is shape and height?
Cloud droplets form around these.
What are small particles?
These are large, swirling areas of low pressure.
What are cyclones?
This is made up of molecules that are always moving randomly.
What is Air?
What is humidity?
Stratus, cumulus, and cirrus are.
What are the three main cloud types?
These are the four main types of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
This is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This is the measure of the average amount of motion of molecules.
What is Temperature?
What is Relative Humidity?
These clouds indicate fair weather or an approaching storm.
What are cirrostratus?
This is precipitation in the form of ice.
What is hail?
High-pressure areas are associated with fair weather and are called.
What are anti-cyclones?
Air moving in a specific direction.
What is Wind?
What is condensation?
Clouds associated with rain or snow often have this word attached to them.
What is nimbus?
This determines the form of precipitation.
What is temperature?
This motion in high-pressure air masses make it difficult for air to rise and clouds to form.
What is sinking?