Storms
Clouds
Fronts
Air Mass
100
Violent disturbance in the atmosphere
What is a storm?
100
Water vapor in the air condenses to form liquid water or ice crystals
How do clouds form?
100
A boundary where air masses meet.
What is a front?
100
Huge body of air with simalair temperature, humidity, and air pressure, at any given height
What is an air mass?
200
Small storm often joined by heavy rain, thunder, and lightning
What is a thunderstorm?
200
Flat, low, spread out cloud
What is a stratus cloud?
200
A fast moving warm air mass overtakes a slow moving cold air mass
What is a warm front?
200
A humid air mass in the tropics
What is a tropical air mass?
300
Electric discharge between nearby clouds
What is Lightning?
300
Wispy, feathery cloud
What is a cirrus cloud?
300
A fast moving cold air mass overtakes a slow moving warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
300
An air mass that forms over land.
What is a continental air mass?
400
rapid whirling funnel-shaped cloud
What is a tornado?
400
These clouds look like fluffy cotton balls
What is a cumulus cloud?
400
A front where two air masses meet, but do not mix
What is a stationary front?
400
Air mass that forms over the ocean.
What is a maritime air mass?
500
Tropical cyclone with winds of over 119km per hour
What is a Hurricane?
500
Cumulonimbus clouds produce this storm
What cloud does a thunderstorm form in?
500
two cooler air masses cut of the warmer air mass from the Earths surface
What is an occluded front?
500
A cold air mass with high air pressure
What is a polar air mass?
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