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What process of the water cycle forms clouds?
What is condensation.
Water vapor that condenses around dust or air particles in the atmosphere is called what?
Clouds
What is it called where two air masses meet?
What is a front?
What tool measures air pressure?
What is a barometer.
This climate is warm.
What is Tropical
What powers the water cycle?
What is the sun AND gravity
Warm air rises because...
It has more energy / it is less dense / it is lighter / it's particles are more spread out
A curved line with red half circles on it is the symbol for a ?
What is warm front
What is the force that pushes on air molecules?
What is air pressure?
This climate is cold
What is polar
rain, sleet, snow, and hail are examples of?
What is precipitation.
The particles are slower, have less energy, more dense, heavier
The weather forecast indicates that the weather will be turning cold very quickly with the chance of a tornado. What type of front would cause this?
What is a cold front.
Differences in air pressure would cause what?
What is wind.
This climate is humid and wet
What is maritime
Describe the continental tropical (cT) airmass.
Dry and warm (desert)
What kind of pressure would result in large warm air mass rising swiftly?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Also, describe the weather you would observe?
Low Pressure
*** Severe and sudden rain storms, with thunder and/or lightening
Daily Double
This type of front is when a warm and cold front meet. It brings many days of cloudy, wet weather.
What is a stationary front.
the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time
What is weather?
This climate is dry
What is continental
This cloud is large, dark and high in the sky. It is associated with bad weather such as thunderstorms.
What is cumulonimbus.
Warm air rising and cold air falling creates this type of currents...
What is convection currents?
This type of front is when a warm and cold front are moving in the same direction.
What is an occluded front.
a large body of air with similar temperature, humidity and air pressure that forms over land or water.
What is an air mass?
The climate of Florida
Maritime tropical.