Weather
Measures air temperature
What is a thermometer?
The transition of thermal energy from hotter to cooler objects.
What is heat transfer?
White, puffy clouds that look like cotton balls that bring fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
Process of changing from liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
Large body of air with the same temperature and humidity throughout.
What are air masses?
Shows wind direction
The transfer of heat through direct contact.
What is conduction?
Low, light gray, blanket-like clouds; layers bringing overcast skies with light rain.
What are stratus clouds?
Process of turning from gas into liquid.
What is condensation?
Warm air mass with steady rain; nimbostratus clouds, and warmer temperatures follow.
What is a warm front?
Measures amount of precipitation
What is a rain guage?
The transfer of heat through a liquid or gas through natural rising of hot and sinking of cool.
What is convection?
Thin, wispy, feather-like, made of ice crystals in fair weather, but the weather will change in 24 hours.
What are cirrus clouds?
Water that is released from clouds; rain, snow, sleet, hail, or freezing rain.
What is precipitation?
What is a cold front?
What is a barometer?
Energy that travels through space.
What is radiation?
Tall, anvil shaped clouds that bring thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Rainfall not absorbed by the soil.
What is runoff?
Warm and cold air mass meet but neither moves the other.
What is a stationary front?
What are an anemometer and a hygrometer?
Radiation made of waves of energy with electric and magnetic fields.
What are electromagnetic waves?
What are nimbostratus clouds?
Process in which plants take up water from the roots and release water vapor from the leaves.
What is transpiration?
What is an occluded front?