Severe Weather
Weather Map
Humidity
Air Pressure
Clouds
100
What is a severe type of weather including flashes of lightning?
thunder storms
100
What is a weather map used for?
Track movement of wind and weather in certain areas and also predict weather in certain areas.
100
It is humid when there is a lot of what in the air?
water vapor
100
What is air pressure?
What is air pressure?weight of air pressing on everything in the environment
100
What condenses in the air to form clouds?
water vapor
200
What is a severe type of weather that forms over the ocean and is made up of swirling winds?
hurricanes
200
What is it called when a air mass meets another air mass and pushed it aside?
front
200
Where is there a lot of humidity?
Areas near large bodies of water
200
How is air pressure measured?
barometer
200
What are two types of clouds in the sky?
cumulus and cirrus
300
What is a funnel of strong winds spiraling upwards?
tornados
300
What is a large pocket or bubble of air?
air mass
300
Water falling from the sky is called what?
precipitation
300
What can affect air pressure?
weather
300
What are rain clouds called?
nimbus
400
What is severe type of weather that produces heavy snowfall?
blizzards
400
Numbers and symbols on a weather map tell a person the characteristics of what?
air masses (air pressure, temperature, cloud cover, speed of moving wind, and type of precipitation)
400
What are several types of precipitation?
hail, drizzle, snow, rain, and sleet
400
When air pressure falls, what kind of weather is usually near?
wet
400
What clouds are seen in calm weather?
Cumulus
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