Clouds
Air Masses
Fronts
100
A collection of tiny water droplets or ice crystals
What is a cloud?
100
a large body of air where temperature and moisture content are similar throughout
What is air mass?
100
The boundary between different air masses
What is a front?
200
Puffy, white clouds with flat bottoms
What are cumulus clouds?
200
the abbreviation (m)
What is maritime?
200
a cold air mass meets a warm air mass
What is a stationary front?
300
This term is used to describe clouds that form at high altitudes
What is "cirro"?
300
What causes weather to change?
What is when air masses move and meet?
300
a warm air mass caught between two colder air masses
What is an occluded front?
400
Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface from the clouds
What is precipitation?
400
What does the symbol on a weather map tell about an air mass?
What is moisture content and temperature?
400
Fronts are associated with weather in this location.
What are middle latitudes?
500
Altitude in which a altostratus cloud forms
What is 4,000 m?
500
air mass that brings hurricanes to the East Coast of the United States
What is maritime tropical?
500
This type of weather is to be expected from an occluded front.
What is cool temperatures and large amounts of rain and snow?
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