What Is Weather?
Weather Patterns
Forecasting Weather
Other
100
Rain, sleet, hail, and snow
What is percipitation
100
The boundary between two different air masses
What is a front
100
a person who studies weather
What is a meteorologist
100
Forced upward, expands, and cools
What is how clouds are formed
200
The amount of water vapor held in air
What is Humidity
200
A large body of air that has the same properties as the surface over which it develops.
What is an air mass
200
Temperature, air pressure, winds, humidity, and precipitation
What is how Meteorologist take measurements
200
Stratus, cumulus, and cirus
What are types of clouds
300
Shape and height
How clouds are classified
300
A violent, whirling wind that moves in a narrow path over land
What is a tornado
300
Lines that connects points of equal temperature
What is an isotherm
300
A large, swirling, low pressure system that forms over tropical oceans
What is a hurricane
400
Air pressure, wind, temperature, and the amount of moisture in the air
What are factors that determine the state of the atmosphere
400
Warm, cold, occluded and stationary
What are types of fronts
400
Doplar Radar, computers, and instruments
What is used to gather data
400
Meteorologist from around the world and satellites
What the National Weather Service depends on for information
500
The present state of the atmosphere and describes current conditions
What is weather
500
cool, moist; cold, dry; cool moist Warm, moist; Dry hot; warm, moist
What are the six major air masses that affect weather
500
A line drawn to connect points of equal atmospheric pressure
What is isobar
500
The temperature at which air is saturated and condensation takes place
What is dew point
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