The boundary between two air masses that have different temperature or humidity.
What are fronts?
100
A violent disturbance of the atmosphere with strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow.
What are storms?
100
The transfer of heat through the movement of a fluid.
What is convection?
100
The cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land
What is the Water Cycle?
100
Millions of tiny water droplets or ice crystals after condensation of water vapor occurs.
What are clouds?
200
A transition zone where a cold air mass is replacing a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
200
The air cools as it rises. Water vapor condenses and forms cumulus clouds. When condensation occurs, heat is released and helps the thunderstorm grow. At some point, condensation high in the cloud falls to the ground as rain.
How do storms form?
200
The transfer of heat by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
200
97.25% of earth's water is ...
What is the ocean?
200
When water vapor condenses upon dust particles when the temperature is below the dew point.
How do clouds form?
300
A transition zone where a warm air mass is replacing a cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
300
A rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.
What is a tornado?
300
It occurs when particles with a lot of heat energy in a liquid or gas move and take the place of particles with less heat energy.
How does convection work?
300
The process where the sun heats up liquid water so it becomes less dense and floats into the sky.
What is evaporation?
300
This cloud is associated with thunderstorms.
What is the cumulonimbus cloud?
400
A composite front produced by occlusion.
What is an occluded front?
400
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain.
What is a hurricane?
400
The transfer of heat when something touches something.
What is conduction?
400
Rain, sleet, hail, and snow.
What are the types of precipitation?
400
A low-level clouds characterized by horizontal layering with a uniform base, as opposed to convective or cumuliform clouds that are formed by rising thermals
What is a stratus cloud.
500
A pair of air masses that both don't have enough power to replace one another.
What is a stationary front?
500
A seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain
What is a monsoon?
500
The heat transfer from electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
500
The process where water vapor condenses into tiny water droplets to form clouds.
What is condensation?
500
A genus of atmospheric cloud generally characterized by thin, wispy strands.