Water in the Atmospher
Precipitation
Air Masses and Fronts
Storms
Prediction the Weather
100
The continuous movement of water between the atmosphere and Earth's surface
What is the Water Cycle?
100
Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface
What is precipitation?
100
Warm air masses from in the tropics and have low air pressure
What is Tropical?
100
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere
What is a storm?
100
Scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it
What is Meteorologists?
200
The process by which water molecules in liquid water absorb energy and escape into the air as water vapor
What is Evaporation?
200
Rain, hail, snow, sleet and freezing rain
What is common types of precipitation
200
Air masses form over land
What is Continental?
200
A small storm often accompanied by heavy precipitation and frequent thunder and lightening
What is a thunderstorm?
200
Lines joining places on the map that have the same air pressure
What is Isobars?
300
The measure of the amount of water vapor in the air
What is Humidity?
300
Round pellets of ice larger than 5 millimeters in diameter
What is hail?
300
The boundary where two air masses meet
What is a front?
300
Safest place to be during a tornado
What is the basement?
300
Lines joining places that have the same temperature
What is isotherms?
400
Molecules of water vapor in the air become liquid water
What is Condensation?
400
Water vapor in a cloud is converted directly into ice crystals
What is snow?
400
A warm air mass overtakes a slow-moving cold air mass, producting some rain
What is a Warm front?
400
You should find shelter during a snowstorm to protect you from this
What is wind?
400
A "snapshot" of conditions at a particular time over a large area
What is a weather map?
500
The temperature at which condensation begins
What is dew point?
500
The most common type of precipitation
What is rain?
500
The most complex weather situation, trapping warm air between to cold fronts.
What is an occluded front?
500
Forms over warm water as a low-pressure area or tropical disturbance
What is a Hurricane?
500
fronts, areas of high and low pressure, types of precipitation and temperatures
What is standard symbols on a weather map?
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