Water Vapor
steps of the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation and precipitation?
This is a large body of air with consistent temperature and moisture content throughout
What is an air mass?
Name all four types of fronts.
What is cold, warm, stationary and occluded?
What is low pressure system?
These clouds are white and puffy like cotton balls and usually appear in fair weather.
What are cumulus?
Name 3 different types of precipitation.
Rain , Hail , Snow , Sleet , Freezing rain
This type of air mass absorbs water from oceans.
What is a maritime air mass?
When a warm air mass slowly climbs over a cold air mass resulting in several days of light precipitation.
What is a warm front?
Dallas, TX currently has great weather. No clouds, no rain, warm temperatures. This is a _______ pressure system.
What is high?
This cloud is a thin, gray blanket with sun peeking through (think hazy).
What is altostratus?
The amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree Celsius
What is specific heat?
This air mass cold and dry as it formed over land and near the Poles.
What is Continental Polar?
This front may result in storms or heavy rain and cooler temperatures.
What is a cold front?
These symbols represent the high and low pressure on a weather map.
What is an H for high pressure and L for low pressure?
These clouds are white, wispy and appear in fair weather.
What are cirrus clouds?
True or false? Water has high specific heat.
What is true?
An air mass forms over land in Mexico.
What is Continental Tropical?
This happens when a cold front and a warm front meet up, but neither moves out of the way.
What is a stationary front?
Identify the way air rotates for both high and low pressure systems.
High - rotates clockwise
Low - rotates counterclockwise
These clouds are white and puffy, but spread apart because of the high altitude.
What is altocumulus or cirrocumulus?
This air mass can hold more water vapor
What is a warm air mass?
An air mass that formed over water and near the equator.
What is Maritime Tropical?
Cold fronts move faster than warm fronts, and sometimes a cold front catches up to a warm front.
What is an occluded front?
What type of weather do we experience with high pressure systems, and WHY?
Great weather because the systems rids the moisture from the air, preventing clouds from forming.
This cloud is dark, brings severe storms and extends from low to high level.
What is Cumulonimbus?