Cloud Types
What type of cloud is described as white and puffy, resembling floating cotton?
What are cumulus clouds?
What is the term for the amount of water vapor present in the air?
What is humidity?
What boundary forms between two air masses?
What is a front?
What natural disaster is described as a violent, whirling column of air in contact with the ground?
What is a tornado?
What is a specialized radar that can detect precipitation and wind speed?
What is Doppler radar?
These grayish, puffy clouds may indicate thunderstorms after a warm, humid morning. What are they called?
What are altocumulus clouds?
This term describes the pressure that a column of air exerts on the air or surface below it. What is it?
What is air pressure?
What type of air mass is characterized by warm, moist air from the ocean?
What is a maritime tropical air mass?
What is the three-stage life cycle of a thunderstorm?
What are cumulus, mature, and dissipation stages?
What type of report describes weather conditions above Earth's surface?
What is an upper-air report?
What type of cloud is thin, wispy, and indicates a weather change in about 24 hours?
What are cirrus clouds?
What is the term for water, in liquid or solid form, that falls from the atmosphere?
What is precipitation?
What is the term for a large body of air with distinct temperature and moisture characteristics?
What is an air mass?
What term describes a winter storm characterized by freezing temperatures and strong winds?
What is a blizzard?
Lines on a weather map that connect places with the same air pressure are called what?
What are isobars?
Which type of cloud is known for producing heavy rain, snow, hail, and tornadoes, and can grow over 50,000 feet?
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
What do we call the temperature at which air becomes fully saturated with water?
What is the dew point?
What weather phenomenon occurs when a cold front overtakes a warm front?
What is an occluded front?
What type of storm typically has winds exceeding 119 km/h and forms over warm ocean waters?
What is a hurricane?
What is the detailed program used to solve complex weather formulas called?
What is a computer model?
Name the cloud type that resembles fog and usually brings no precipitation but may produce drizzle.
What are stratus clouds?
Which term refers to the atmospheric conditions of a certain place at a certain time?
What is weather?
Which weather system is characterized by low pressure at its center and rising air?
What is a low-pressure system?
What stage of a thunderstorm is dominated by heavy winds and rain?
What is the mature stage?
What type of report describes a set of weather measurements made on Earth's surface?
What is a surface report?