Elements of weather
The condition of the atmosphere at a certain time or place.
What is weather?
A group of small water droplets or ice suspended in the air.
What are clouds?
A boundary between air masses.
What is a front?
How hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
Water vapor that condenses very near the Earth's surface.
What is fog?
Winds that move at least 92 kilometers per hour.
What are jet streams?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
When liquid changes into a gas.
What is evaporation?
The type of front that doesn't move.
What is a stationary front?
The measure of transparency in the atmosphere.
What is visibility?
When the rate of condensation equals the rate of evaporation.
What is the dew point?
Large volume of air in which temperature and moisture content stays nearly the same throughout.
What is an air mass?
A tool that humidity can be measured with.
What is a psychrometer?
Surfaces on which water droplets condense.
What are cloud condensation nuclei?
The type of pressure system that brings rainy weather.
What is a low pressure system?