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Vocabulary
Clouds and Precipitation
Climate
Storms
Miscellaneous
100
The condition of the air around us.
What is weather?
100
A cloud at ground level
What is fog?
100
A weather pattern of hot summers, cold winters, and low annual precipitation.
What is continental climate?
100
The speed that winds need to reach for a tropical storm to become a hurricane.
What is 75mph?
100
The weight of air of any one spot.
What is air pressure?
200
The average or typical weather in a particular area.
What is climate?
200
Any form of water particles that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground
What is precipitation
200
A boundary between air masses with different temperatures
What is a Front?
200
The sound given off by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lighten stroke
What is thunder?
200
A location that records temperature, wind direction, wind speed, and humidity
What is a weather station?
300
The part of the water cycle that changes water vapor into liquid droplets forming a cloud.
What is condensation?
300
A type of cloud that forms in blanket like layers
What is stratus clouds?
300
The distance north or south of the equator
What is latitude?
300
Cold heavy air
What is high pressure air?
400
The layer of air around the earth.
What is atmosphere?
400
These clouds are puffy and appear to rise up from a flat bottom
What are cumulus clouds
400
The two main factors that determine the climate
What are temperature and precipitation?
400
The weakest point of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
400
The study of weather
What is meteorology?
500
The layer of the atmosphere where weather takes place.
What is troposphere?
500
A type of cloud that forms at a very high altitude out of ice crystals and have a wispy, featherlike shape
What is cirrus clouds?
500
When warm air moves in over a cold air mass
What is a warm front?
500
Warm humid air pulled into a funnel shaped column.
What is a tornado?
500
These winds in the United States blow from West to East.
What is a prevailing wind?