Clouds
Clouds are made of?
What is water and dust particles
Humidity is the amount of this in the air?
What is water vapor?
A curved blue line with blue triangles is a weather symbol for this type of front.
What is a cold front?
A tool used to measure air temperature
What is a thermometer
The direction that weather patterns move in the United States?
What is west to east
3 types of clouds
What are cumulus, stratus and cirrus
This determines what type of precipitation will fall
What is temperature?
A curved red line with semi circles on it is a symbol for this.
What is a warm front?
A tool used to measure the direction of the wind
What is an wind sock or weather vane
Name for a COLD air mass that forms over LAND
What is Continental Polar?
A wispy and feathery type of cloud made of ice crystals
What is cirrus
Any form of water that falls from the sky is called
What is precipitation?
A large swirling storm that forms over warm ocean water and produces damaging winds and torrential rains.
What is a hurricane?
A tool used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
Name for a WARM air mass that forms over an OCEAN
What is Maritime Tropical?
A cloud that appears as a blanket covering the sky?
What is Stratus
2 causes of global winds
What are differences in air pressure (temperature) and the Coriolis Effect (caused by Earth's rotation)?
The type of front that forms when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass and quickly pushes the warm air up resulting in stormy weather.
What is a cold front?
A tool used to measure the air pressure
What is a barometer?
Name for a COLD air mass that forms over an OCEAN
What is Maritime Polar?
clouds form when this kind of air rises, cools, and condenses.
What is warm air
Someone who studies weather
What is a meteorologist?
This type of front forms when a warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass and slides up over it producing cloudy, drizzly weather.
What is a warm front?
Multiple weather tools are sent to the stratosphere with this
What is a weather balloon?
Name for a WARM air mass that forms over LAND
What is Continental Tropical?