A boundary between air masses with different temperatures.
What is a front?
100
Condition in which the air contains substances harmful to living things.
What is air pollution?
100
If the clouds are dense they often represent a storm approaching.
What does a cirrus cloud indicate?
100
Monitoring the soil, air, and water.
How can we have good stewardship?
200
A prediction of what will be like in an hour, tomorrow, or next week.
What is a forecast
200
Cold air pushing up. Appears as blue triangles on a weather map.
What is a cold front?
200
Agency of the united states federal government whose mission is to protect human and environmental health.
What is the EPA?
200
Layered clouds that usually bring a drizzle and there is widespread rain and in some cases ocean air.
What does a stratus cloud represent?
200
Quality of life of all living things on earth
What does air quality effect?
300
short term state of the atmosphere including temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind and visibility.
What is weather
300
Pushing cold air out. Appears as red semicircles on a weather map.
What is a warm front?
300
You know for a fact where the pollution is coming from.
What is point source of air pollution?
300
Neutral weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
300
Pollen
Mold spores
Dust from plowed fields
What are some natural pollutants?
400
A weather map shows precipitation, wind direction, temperature, cloud cover, high or low pressure, cold and warm fronts, stationary and occluded fronts.
What does a weather map show?
400
Where 3 fronts meet and a warm front is pushes up and away.
What is a occluded front?
400
mixture of smoke and fog that travels with the wind.
What is smog?
400
Freeze to almost form ice crystals
What do the water in cirrus cloud do
400
They have passed laws to help control the amount of pollution on a national level.
How has the EPA helped the enviroment
500
Visible satellite map, infrared satellite map, and water vapor satellite map.
What is are the types of satellite maps?
500
Where 2 fronts meet and stall from movement.
What is a stationary front?
500
The condition of air in terms of the amount of pollutants it contains.
What is air quality?
500
They do not indicate any instability in the weather and may not bring rain.