High Pressure
Low Pressure
Fronts
Weather Facts
Properties of the Atmosphere
100

What is a high pressure system?

What is a "whirling mass of cool,dry air"?

100

What type of weather does a low pressure system bring?

What is "stormy"?

100

How many ways are there to represent stationary fronts on a weather map?

What is "two"?

100

What are clouds made of?

What is water and dust particles

100

Where weather occurs.

What is the saturated

200

What is the usual weather that a high pressure system brings?

What is "pleasant weather and light breezes"

200

What is a low pressure system?

What is a "whirling mass of warm moist air"?

200

How are warm fronts represented on weather maps?

What is a "red line with semicircles on it"?

200

Humidity is the amount of this in the air?

What is water or moisture

200

Clouds form when the relative humidity is this amount (in %)

What is 100%

300

Is the atmosphere heavy?

Yes

300

Do low pressure systems rotate counterclockwise or clockwise?

What is "counterclockwise"?

300

What is a cold front?

What is a "boundary between a cold air mass and another warm air mass. Then the cool takes the warm's place"?

300

When clouds become saturated it begins to

What is rain

300

The difference between the temperature and the dew point when the relative humidity is 100%.

What is zero (both are the same)

400

Which way do high pressure systems rotate?  

What is "counterclockwise"?

400

What is a low pressure system represented by on a weather map?

What is a "large, red 'L' "?

400

What is a warm front?

What is "two air masses, one warm and one cool. Then thewarm moves into the cool's place"?

400

Any form of water that falls from the sky is called

What is precipitation

400

As the temperature drops, the relative humidity goes in this direction.  

What is up/higher

500

What is a high pressure system represented by on a weather map?

What is a "big, blue 'H' "

500

What is the other technical name of air pressure?

What is "barometric pressure"?

500

What is a front that has stopped progress called?

What is "stationary front"

500

Electrical charges in clouds can produce

What is lightning

500

If the relative humidity is a measure of how saturated the air is, the dew point is a measure of this.

What is how much moisture is in the air.

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