Humidity and Precipitation
Air masses and fronts
Storms
Predicting the weather
100
The continuous movement of water between the atmosphere and Earth's surface
What is the water cycle?
100
A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given time.
What is an air mass?
100
A tropical storm that goes more than 119 miles/hour.
What is a hurricane?
100
Meteorologists.
What kind of scientist predicts the weather?
200
A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
200
Maritime air masses form over water, and continental air masses form over land.
What is the difference between a continental and maritime air mass?
200
In the basement of a well-built building or a storm shelter.
Where is the safest place to be during a tornado?
200
Maps, charts, and computers.
What do meteorologists use to predict the weather?
300
Fluffy, rounded balls of cotton.
What does a cumulus cloud look like?
300
A stationary front is when a hot and cold air mass meet and nothing moves.
What is a stationary front?
300
Most of it begins as snow in the clouds.
How does most precipitation begin?
300
Sort of like a key.
What does a figure on a weather map look like?
400
The temperature at which condensation begins.
What is the dew point?
400
A swirling center of low pressure.
What is an anticyclone?
400
A "dome" of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands.
What is a storm surge?
400
Fronts, pressure, precipitation, and temperatures.
What do symbols on weather maps show?
500
Water droplets that look like rain but freeze when they touch the ground.
What is freezing rain?
500
An occluded front is when one warm air mass is trapped between two cold ones.
What is an occluded front?
500
A cold front
What type of front is a violent thunderstorm likely to come from?
500
Isobars are lines joining places on the map that have the same air pressure. Isotherms are lines joining places that have the same temperature.
What is the difference between an isobar and an isotherm?
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