Air Mass
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Weather Fronts
100
What types of air masses from over oceans
What are maritime?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Identify this weather symbol
What is a cold front?
200
What is the humidity and temperature of a continental tropical air mass?
What is dry and warm?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Why type of front is pictured here?
What is a stationary front?
300
What type of air mass would form over Canada?
Continental Polar
300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Formed at the boundary of two air masses
What is a front?
300
A fast moving cold air mass over takes a slow moving warm air mass it produces this type of front.
What is a cold front?
400
What type of air mass would form at point A
What is Maritime Polar?
400
Scientist use this to classify clouds
What is by their shape?
400
This is atmospheric layer is where weather occurs
What is the troposphere?
400
When a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses, what front is produced
What is an occluded front?
500
This type of air mass forms off the coast of Brazil.
What is Maritime Tropical?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
500
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?