Fronts
Basic Cloud Types
Precipitation
Specific Cloud types
Meteorology
100
A boundary of a warm air mass.
What is a warm front?
100
High, wispy clouds made of ice crystals.
What is cirrus clouds?
100
Water that falls from the sky in liquid form.
What is rain?
100
Thunderstorm clouds formed from cumulus clouds.
What is cumulonimbus clouds?
100
A scientist who studies weather.
What is a meteorologist?
200
A boundary of a cold air mass.
What is a cold front?
200
White, fluffy clouds which usually bring fair weather.
What is cumulus clouds?
200
Small, hard pellets of frozen rain that fall from cumulonimbus clouds during large storms.
What is hail?
200
Clouds that form in rows and may turn into nimbostratus clouds.
What is Stratocumulus clouds?
200
An instrument used to measure the amount of rainfall.
What is a rain gauge?
300
A red line covered with red half-circles on a weather map.
What is a warm front symbol?
300
Dark, low clouds that may cause light drizzle.
What is stratus clouds?
300
White, fluffy ice crystals that fall from the sky.
What is snow?
300
Clouds that form before storms and are made of a combination of water droplets and ice crystals.
What is altostratus clouds?
300
A measurement of the amount of kinetic energy in the molecules of an object.
What is temperature?
400
When a warm and cold front push against each other in a standoff it is called a stationary front.
What is a stationary front?
400
Storm clouds.
What is nimbus clouds?
400
Ice pellets that often contain a mixture of rain or snow that fall from clouds.
What is sleet?
400
Clouds that appear as small circles in the sky and indicate cold, but fair weather.
What is cirrocumulus clouds?
400
A warning sent to the public warning of a tornado that is forecast or currently occurring.
What is a tornado warning?
500
When air behind a cold front meets air in front of a warm front.
What is an occluded front?
500
Medium height clouds that often predict storms.
What is alto clouds.
500
Acidic rainfall that is caused by pollution.
What is acid rain?
500
Low forming, thick gray clouds that cause precipitation but no lightning or thunder.
What is nimbostratus clouds?
500
A system for locating things that sends out wave pulses and measures their return.
What is radar?
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