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Ch. 5 Terms A
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Ch. 5 Terms B
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Weather or Not
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The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity.
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This cloud forms fog.
What is the stratus cloud.
100
A body of air with horizontally uniform temperature.
What is an air mass.
100
Drawn on a weather map as a red line with red semicircles.
What is a warm front.
100
A person who measures the temperatures, air pressure, or winds on the Earth.
What is a meteorologist.
200
The state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place.
What is weather.
200
This results because air moves from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.
What is wind.
200
The boundary between two air masses of different temperature.
What is a front.
200
A model using a combination of symbols to show weather conditions on a map.
What is a station model.
200
Precipitation in the forms of lumps of ice.
What is hail.
300
The temperature at which the water vapor in air condenses into liquid water.
What is the dew point.
300
The process of heat from the Sun, evaporating water which forms clouds, and eventually water falling back to Earth.
What is the water cycle.
300
A violent rotating column of air that forms over the ocean.
What is a hurricane.
300
A prediction about future weather patterns.
What is a forecast. (or weather forecast)
300
A cloud known as the "dark rain cloud".
What is nimbus.
400
The maximum amount of water vapor that air can hold compared to a given temperature.
What is relative humidity.
400
The measure of the average amount of motion of molecules.
What is the temperature.
400
A violent rotating column of air that touches the ground.
What is a tornado.
400
This instrument measures atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer.
400
A type of cloud that is described as thin, white, and feathery. These clouds are made with ice crystals.
What are Cirrus.
500
Drops of water, hail, sleet, or snow from clouds.
What is precipitation.
500
An instrument used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer.
500
A violent snowstorm with winds blowing at a minimum speed of 35 mph and visibility of less than one-quarter mile
What is a blizzard.
500
Shown on a weather map as a blue line with triangles.
What is a cold front.
500
Warm, moist air can be forced upward where it cools and water droplets form. This is the process of....
What is condensation.