Show:
8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
100
process of when water molecules in liquid water absorb energy and go into air as water vapor
What is evaporation?
100
any form of water water falling from clouds landing on Earth's surface
What is precipitation?
100
huge body of air with similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any height
What is an air mass?
100
small storm mostly partnered by heavy precipitation and often thunder and lightning; form in large cumulonimbus clouds called thunderheads
What is a thunderstorm?
100
scientist who studies causes of weather and tries to predict it
What is a meteorologist?
200
measure of the amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
200
raindrops that freeze when they hit a cold surface
What is freezing rain?
200
band of high speed winds 10 km above Earth's surface; blow west to east
What is a jet stream?
200
sudden spark; when electric discharges jump between parts of a cloud, by nearby clouds, or between a cloud and the ground
What is lightning?
200
service using balloons, satellites, surface instruments, and they track radar responsible for weather forecasts, storm and flood warnings, etc.
What is the National Weather Service?
300
fluffy, round cotton ball piles; meaning mass; form 2 km above ground; extend higher than 18 km
What is a cumulus cloud?
300
large pellets of ice greater than 5 millimeters in diameter
What is hail?
300
swirling center if low air pressure; from the Greek word "wheel"
What is a cyclone?
300
fast, whirling funnel shaped cloud reaching down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface
What is a tornado?
300
lines joining places on a weather map with the same air pressure
What are isobars?
400
indicative of and impending storm;like a row of cotton ball with fish scales; a mackerel sky is a sky full of this kind of cloud
What is a cirrocumulus?
400
precipitation of tiny drops
What is a drizzle?
400
cold and warm air masses meet, neither one can move the other; facing each other in a "standoff"
What is a stationary front?
400
tropical cyclone with winds of 119 km or more per hour
What is a hurricane?
400
lines joining places on a weather map with the same temperature
What are isotherms?
500
middle level clouds higher than ideal cumulus, stratus, and other high level clouds
What is an altocumulus and altostratus cloud?
500
raindrops that fell through a layer below 0 degrees C and freeze; with a diameter of less than 5 millimeters
What is sleet?
500
most complex weather situation; warm air caught between 2 cooler air masses, cool air moves underneath warm air and pushes warm air
What is an occluded front?
500
dome of water sweeping across the coast where a hurricane landing is
What is a storm surge?
500
a small change in today's weather can impact next week's weather a butterfly's wings can lead to a large storm
What is the butterfly effect?