Clouds
Clouds are made of these two
What are water and dust particles?
Humidity is the amount of this in the air?
What is water vapor?
A curved blue line with blue triangles is a weather symbol for this type of front.
What is a cold front?
A tool used to measure air temperature
What is a thermometer?
The direction that weather patterns move in the United States
What is west to east?
3 types of clouds
What are cumulus, stratus and cirrus?
This determines what type of precipitation will fall
What is temperature?
A curved red line with semi circles on it is a symbol for this.
What is a warm front?
A tool used to measure the direction of the wind
What is an wind sock or weather vane?
Name for a COLD air mass that forms over LAND
What is Continental Polar?
A wispy and feathery type of cloud made of ice crystals
What is cirrus?
Any form of water that falls from the sky is called
What is precipitation?
A large swirling storm that forms over warm ocean water and produces damaging winds and torrential rains.
What is a hurricane?
A tool used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
Name for a WARM air mass that forms over an OCEAN
What is Maritime Tropical?
A cloud that appears as a blanket covering the sky?
What is Stratus?
2 causes of global winds
What are differences in air pressure (temperature) and the Coriolis Effect (caused by Earth's rotation)?
The type of front that forms when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass and quickly pushes the warm air up resulting in stormy weather.
What is a cold front?
A tool used to measure the air pressure
What is a barometer?
Name for a COLD air mass that forms over an OCEAN
What is Maritime Polar?
This type of cloud can create hail or a tornado.
What is Cumulonimbus or thunderstorm
Someone who studies weather
What is a meteorologist?
This type of front forms when a warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass and produces cloudy, drizzly weather over a large area.
What is a warm front?
Multiple weather tools are sent to the stratosphere with this
What is a weather balloon?
Name for a WARM air mass that forms over LAND
What is Continental Tropical?