Weather Factors
Clouds
Climate
Tracking the Weather
Air Masses and Fronts
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This is the tool used to measure how hot or cold something is.
What is thermometer?
100
Water vapor condenses during the water cycle to form these.
What are clouds?
100
This climate region is warm, humid, and rainy.
What is a tropical climate?
100
This means to predict weather conditions.
What is forecast?
100
This is a large region of air that has nearly the same properties throughout.
What is an air mass?
200
This is the force of air pushing on an area.
What is air pressure?
200
These are high, wispy clouds.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
These are the two seasons that can be in a temperate climate.
What are a dry and rainy one?
200
This is the symbol for high pressure on a weather map.
What is a blue H?
200
This is a boundary between two air masses of different temperatures that usually causes a change in the weather.
What is a front?
300
This instrument measures the speed of the wind.
What is anemometer?
300
These are clouds seen in stormy weather.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
300
As you go higher in altitude, the temperature does this.
What is lowers?
300
On a weather map, a line with red semicircles and blue triangles represent this.
What is a stationary front?
300
This type of front often brings stormy weather.
What is a cold front?
400
This is the tool that measures how much moisture is in the air.
What is hygrometer?
400
These are low, layered clouds.
What are stratus clouds?
400
This is the climate of New Jersey.
What is a temperate climate?
400
There is this type of weather for days in the front where air masses are not moving.
What is rainy weather?
400
This type of front causes rain or snow, followed by warmer, milder weather.
What is a warm front?
500
These are the six weather factors.
What are temperature, air pressure, precipitation, humidity, wind, and cloud cover?
500
These are known as fair-weather clouds.
What are cumulus clouds?
500
These are five factors that affect climate.
What are distance from water, global winds, ocean currents, latitude, and altitude.
500
This pressure system often produces lousy wet weather.
What is low pressure?
500
These are the four types of air masses found in North America.
What are polar dry, polar moist, tropical dry, and tropical moist?
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