Air masses
Fronts
Clouds
Gizmo
Vocabulary
100
What is an air mass?
What is a huge body of air that has similar temperatures, humidity and air pressure through out.
100
What is a front?
What is the boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix
100
What is a cloud?
What is Water vapor that has condensed into millions of tiny droplets or ice crystals
100
What percentage of Earth's water is found in the oceans?
What is 97.25%
100
What in an aquifer?
What is a place where water can collect
200
What is an air mass that is warm and wet?
What is Maritime Tropical
200
What front is cold? Hint: Dense, fast moving air runs into warm less dense air and goes underneath it.
What is Cold Front
200
What causes weather?
What is clouds
200
What percentage of water is found in soil?
What is 0.005%
200
What is weather?
What is the condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place
300
What is an air mass that is cold and wet?
What is Maritime Polar
300
What front is warm? Hint: less dense, fast moving air runs into more dense cold air and slides over the top of it.
What is Warm Front
300
What types of clouds are thin and wispy?
What is Cirrus cloud
300
What percentage of Earth's water is found in ice and snow?
What is 1.9%
300
What is a dew point?
What is the varying temperature at which condensation occurs.
400
What is an air mass that is warm and dry?
What is Continental Tropical
400
What is a cold and warm air mass? Hint: They meet but they cannot move past each other
What is Stationary Front
400
What clouds are puffy and look like cotton balls floating in the air?
What is the Cumulus
400
What percentage of Earth's water is found in lakes?
What is 0.009%
400
What is evaporation?
What is the process by which water molecules in liquid water escape into the air as water vapor.
500
What is an air mass that is cold and dry?
What is Continental Polar
500
What is a warm air mass that gets caught between two cold air masses and then gets pushed up?
What is Occluded Front
500
What cloud has little patterned pouches hanging from them.
What is Mammatus
500
What human activity uses most water worldwide?
What is Agriculture
500
What is radiation?
What is the direct transfer of energy through space by electromagnetic waves.
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