Vocabulary
Weather is
What is the atmospheric conditions along with short term changes of a certain place at a certain time?
Air pressure is
What is the force that a column of air applies on the air or a surface below it?
Name the pressure systems
What are high pressure systems and low pressure systems?
A report that is made on the surface describing a set of weather measurements
What is a surface report?
Humidity is
What is the amount of water vapor in the air?
Kinetic energy is
What is energy an object has due to its motion?
Five main air masses
What are arctic, continental, maritime polar, continental tropical, and maritime tropical air masses?
The tool that can be used to measure precipitation and the movement of small particles
What is doppler radar?
Air mass is
What are large bodies of air that have uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure.
Factors that can affect the temperature of air
What are air temperatures that can vary by the time of day, season, location, and altitude?
This air mass is humid and warm
What is the maritime tropical?
Lines that connect all places on a map where pressure has the same value
What are isobars?
A Font is
What is a boundary between two air masses?
Dew point is
What is the temperature at which air is saturated and condensation can occur?
Winds that exceed 119 km/hr
What is a hurricane?
Two ways that upper air weather conditions are measured
What are radiosonde and satellite images?
Tornado is
What is a violent whirling column of air in contact with the ground?
The Water Cycle is
What is the series of natural processes by which water continually moves among oceans, land, and the atmosphere?
This is where the funnel of the tornado is
What is the ground?
This program is used to help make modern weather forecasts
What are computer models?