Water in the Atmosphere
Precipitation
Air Masses and Fronts
Storms
Predicting the Weather
100
The continuous movement of water between the surface and the atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
100
Any form of water that falls form clouds and reaches the surface.
What is precipitation?
100
A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height.
What is an air mass
100
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere.
What is a storm?
100
A low pressure area is approaching.
What is the signal of falling air pressure?
200
The 3 processes that changes water.
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation?
200
The most common type of precipitation.
What is rain?
200
The 4 types of air masses.
What is tropical, polar, maritime, continental?
200
A sudden discharge of positive and negative charges in storm clouds.
What is lightning?
200
Scientists who study the cause of weather and try to predict it.
What is meteorologists?
300
Measure of how much water vapor there is in the air.
What is humidity?
300
Rain that froze in air that was below 0 degrees C.
What is sleet?
300
Boundary where air masses meet.
What is a front?
300
Rapid whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that touches the surface.
What is a tornado?
300
Lines joining places on the map with the same air pressure.
What are isobars?
400
The temperature at which condensation starts.
What is dew point?
400
Rain that freezes when it touches a cold surface.
What is freezing rain?
400
The forces that move air masses.
What are prevailing westerlies and jet streams?
400
A tropical cyclone that has winds of 119 kilometers per hour or higher.
What is a hurricane?
400
Lines that join places on a map that have the same air temperature
What are isotherms?
500
The 3 main types of clouds.
What is cirrus, cumulus, stratus?
500
Water vapor in clouds that directly turn into ice crystals.
What is snow?
500
The four types of fronts.
What is cold, warm, stationary, occluded?
500
A dome of water that sweeps the coast where the hurricane hit.
What is a storm surge?
500
Semicircles on a map.
What is a warm front?
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