WEATHER FRONTS
STORMS
AIR MASSES
CLOUDS
METEOROLOGY MYSTERY
100
This type of front usually brings gentle rain, and warmer, more mild weather.
What is a warm front?
100
This type of cloud can produce hail.
What is a Cumulonimbus cloud?
100
This type of air mass forms over land and is dry.
What is a continental air mass?
100
A high altitude cloud that is thin and wispy and made of ice crystals.
What is a cirrus cloud?
100
A weather tool that measures in units of millibars.
What is a barometer?
200
A red line with red semi circles.
What is the symbol for a warm front?
200
The direction that weather generally moves in the United States.
What is west to east?
200
This type of air mass forms over the ocean and is wet or humid.
What is a maritime air mass?
200
The two cloud types that can produce precipitation.
What are Cumulonimbus and Nimbostratus?
200
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
300
A type of weather front where a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet, but neither pushes the other out of the way.
What is a stationary front?
300
The movement of warmer air rising up into the atmosphere while cooler air is sinking down to replace it.
What is the convection cycle?
300
An area of high pressure will most likely result in this type of weather
clear weather
300
The type of cloud that can produce thunder, lightning, and hail.
What is a Cumulonimbus cloud?
300
The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
400
A type of front that moves quickly and can bring thunderstorms and heavy rain or snow.
What is a cold front?
400
An air pressure system that can bring rain, clouds, and thunderstorms.
What is a low pressure system?
400
The boundary between two air masses.
What is a (weather) front?
400
Part of the cloud formation process when water vapor cools.
What is condensation?
400
rain, snow, sleet, and hail
What is precipitation?
500
A weather front that brings heavy rain and happens when a warm air mass is caught between 2 cold air masses.
What is an occluded front?
500
When the temperature quickly drops and the humidity spikes.
What are good conditions for a storm to form?
500
An air mass with characteristics of dry and very cold.
What is a Continental Arctic air mass? (cA)
500
A classification term used to describe mid-level clouds.
What is alto?
500
Three weather tools that could provide the following weather report:the wind is 50 mph, coming from the South and the temperature is increasing.
What are an anemometer, a wind vane, and a thermometer?