Elements of weather
Condition of earths atmosphere at a certain and place.
What is weather?
The three steps in the water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
Collection of small water droplets or ice crystals suspended in air.
What is a cloud?
Large volume of air all around the same temperature.
What is an air mass?
The movement that the warm air goes if a cold front is invading.
what is up?
The amount of water vapor in the air compared to the water vapor needed to reach saturation.
The movement of water through the atmosphere, ocean and living things.
what is the water cycle?
The horizontal movement of air.
What is wind?
Long distance winds that flow west to east above global winds.
What is jet stream?
The types of weather that a warm front produces.
what is drizzly rain and clear skies.
The force of air molecules pushing on a surface.
What is air pressure?
The four main types of precipitation.
What are rain, hail, snow, and sleet.
When air rises up the side of a mountain.
What is orographic lifting?
Global winds pushing water across the ocean.
What are surface currents?
when cold fronts and warm fronts stop moving.
What is stationary front.
When the amount of condensation equals evaporation.
What is dew point?
The process in which water vapor turns into a cloud
What is condensation?
Water vapor condensing very near earth's surface.
What is fog?
The extreme weather that is affected by surface currents.
What is a hurricane or monsoon?
the way a cold air mass moves when a warm air mass invades.
what is away from warm mass.
Transparency of the atmosphere.
What is visibility?
The power of the water cycle.
What is the sun?
When a cold air mass slides under a warm air mass, pushing the warm air mass up often into a storm.
What is frontal lifting?
The weather that high pressure systems produce.
What is clear weather?
The three types of fronts.
What is a cold front, warm front, and stationary front.