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Clouds & Vocab
Precipitation
Fronts
Weather Forecasting
Severe Weather
100
Clouds that look like flat blankets and are usually the lowest in the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
100
Any type of solid or liquid water that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground.
What is precipitation?
100
This occurs when a warm air mass moves over a slower cool air mass.
What is a warm front?
100
Scientists who study the atmosphere and the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100
A funnel-shaped cloud of swirling winds that reach down to the ground.
What is a tornado?
200
Thin, curly-looking clouds that are high in the sky.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
Raindrops that are pushed up over and over again into tall clouds and freeze before falling to the earth form this.
What is hail?
200
This occurs when air masses push against each other but do not move.
What is a stationary front?
200
An instrument that shows the direction wind is blowing from.
What is a wind vane?
200
This often occurs when a large, warm air mass quickly rises above a cold air mass.
What is a thunderstorm?
300
Large fluffy-looking with flat bottoms.
What are cumulus clouds?
300
Raindrops that freeze on their way to the earth and land as tiny ice pellets form this.
What is sleet?
300
This forms when a cool air mass pushes itself under a weather warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
300
Instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
A storm with spiraling winds that form over the ocean.
What is a hurricane.
400

Imaginary Line drawn around the middle of the Earth; separates the two hemispheres

What is Equator?

400
Water droplets in the clouds that join together to make larger drops form this.
What is rain?
400
A body of air that has about the same temperature and moisture is called this.
What is an air mass?
400
Instrument used to measure the speed of wind.
What is an anemometer?
400

Issued by the National Weather Service, it means that the conditions are right for a type of severe weather.

What is a watch?

500

Weather instrument that rises through the air to measure atmosphere conditions

Weather Balloon

500
Ice crystals in the clouds that join together and fall to the earth form this.
What is snow?
500
The boundary where two unlike air masses meet.
What is a front?
500
The condition of the atmosphere at any moment in time.
What is weather?
500

Issued by the National Weather Service, this indicates that severe weather is happening.

What is a warning?