Precipitation
What is a rain gauge?
When warm air meets and moves over cold air
What is a warm front?
Evacuate is the safest thing to do for this storm
What is a hurricane?
scientists who study weather
What is a meteorologist?
a barrier across a river
What is a dam?
falls as liquid water but freezes as it touches the surface
What is freezing rain?
this is marked by blue triangles on a weather map
What is a cold front?
This causes thunder
What is the sound of lightning?
These gather data from surface location about temperature, air pressure, rainfall, etc.
What are weather stations?
cloud seeding is one way to help with this
What is a drought?
freezes as it falls from the cloud
What is sleet?
these two types of fronts cause many days of clouds and precipitation
What are warm fronts and stationary fronts?
If you are outside during this storm, the safest thing to do is lie in a ditch
What is a tornado?
these can collect data on solar radiation
What are weather satellites?
DAILY DOUBLE
Lots of cloud cover over an area would mean this kind of air pressure
What is low?
In order for this to happen the air and ground temperature need to be below freezing
What is snow?
When the warm air mass has been cut off from the ground, this type of front occurs
What is occluded?
Flash floods can occur because of this storm
What is a thunderstorm?
this is a snapshot of the weather at a particular time
What is a weather map?
a line of half circles and triangles on the same side represent this on a weather map
What is an occluded front?
The two factors that determine what type of precipitation falls
What is air temperature and ground temperature?
A swirling center of air that moves downwards
What is an anticyclone?
DAILY DOUBLE
These two air masses are why we have tornado alley in the U.S.
What are Maritime Tropical and Continental Polar?
The standard symbols on a weather map show these four things
The energy source for the water cycle
What is the sun?