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CLOUDS
WIND
STORMS
FORECAST
AIR MASSES/FRONTS
100
This is the most smallest cloud.
What are cirrus clouds?
100
These are calm areas of falling air.
What are the horse latitudes?
100
These are nicknamed "twisters".
What are tornadoes?
100
These are the people who predict the weather.
Who is a meteorologist?
100
A body of air.
What is air mass?
200
This cloud is the type we walk through.
What is fog?
200
These winds blow away from the poles.
What are polar easterlies?
200
The most important thing to do during a hurricane.
What is evacuating?
200
An irregular change of climate.
What is El NiƱo?
200
Connected with the sea, especially with seafaring commercial.
What is maritime?
300
These clouds may produce rain or snow.
What are nimbostratus clouds?
300
These winds blow the horse latitudes toward the equator.
What are trade winds?
300
Sand and wind equal this.
What are sandstorms?
300
A line on a map, connecting points.(atmospheric pressure)
What is an isobar?
300
A system of winds rotating to an area of atmospheric pressure.
What is a cyclone?
400
These clouds cause thunderstorms, the reason why they are nicknamed "thunderheads".
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
This is a calm area where warm air rises.
What are the doldrums?
400
This happens when so much water pours into a stream and overflows.
What are floods?
400
A line on a map, connecting points. (temperature)
What is an isotherm?
400
Of or relating to the North/South Pole.
What is "polar"?
500
These clouds are what we see almost every day.
What are cumulus clouds?
500
These blow away from the horse latitudes.
What are the prevailing westerlies?
500
This is the rising of the sea.
What is a storm surge?
500
H and C mean this on a forecast map.
What is Hot and Cold weather?
500
Of, typical, or peculiar to the tropics.
What is "tropical"?