Clouds
Storm cloud has an anvil shape
Cumulonimbus
The process of gas turning to liquid
Condensation
The heat source that gives off radiation
The sun
The boundary between two different air masses
A Front
An average of weather over a span of time
Climate
high wispy clouds
Cirrus
What is the step after condensation
precipitation
The process of heat rising
Convection
A large body of air with the same conditions throughout
Air Mass
A measure of how hot or cold something is
Temperature
Fluffy white clouds
cumulus
The process of rain that does not seep into the ground flowing into bodies of water
Runoff
The process of the ground heating the air
Conduction
The 3 major convection cells along earth's surface
Hadley cells
How much water is in the atmosphere
Humidity
Clouds look like a blanket
Stratus
The process of water seeping into the ground
infiltration
Why does cold air sink and warm air rise?
Density - cold air is more dense
Winds that occur in belts and go around out planet
trade winds or global winds
A prediction of weather conditions based on observations and data
Forecast
The two rainmaker clouds
cumulonimbus and nimbostratus
The process of water transferring into the atmosphere from the leaves of plants
transpiration
Seasons are caused by
Earth's tilt
Objects moving on a curved path due to the earth's rotation
Coriolis effect
The atmosphere we live in
Trophosphere