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Vocabulary
Water in the Air
Air Masses and Fronts
Severe Weather
Forecasting the Weather
100
Puffy white clouds that often indicate fair weather are?
What are cumulus clouds?
100
People use coasters when setting cold drinks on the furniture to protect the surface from?
What is condensation?
100
A maritime polar air mass that forms over the North Pacific Ocean brings what kind of weather to the Pacific Coast?
What is wet and cold?
100
Unstable atmospheric conditions lead to the formation of lightning and thunder in?
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
100
A windsock is different than an anemometer because?
What is it does not measure wind speed?
200
Fog is a type of?
What is stratus cloud?
200
The ability of air to hold water is increased by?
What is temperature?
200
Hail is?
What is rain that is sent up into the clouds many times?
200
Explain how tornadoes form.
What is wind traveling in opposite directions during a thunderstorm causes a layer of air in the middle of a cumulonimbus cloud to begin to rotate. The rotating air column moves to the bottom of the cloud and forms a funnel cloud. When it touches the ground, it is called a tornado.
200
Isobars indicate?
What is air pressure?
300
The terms occluded and stationary describe types of?
What are fronts?
300
Dew is formed when small water droplets condense on grass. In what type of environment is dew NOT likely to form?
What is in areas that are very dry, such as the desert, because there is not enough moisture to cause humidity?
300
What kind of weather does a stationary front bring?
What is many days of cloudy, wet weather?
300
Lightning is caused by?
What is opposite charges within one cloud, between two clouds, or between a cloud and the Earth cause an electrical discharge?
300
List three things that collect weather-related data from the upper atmosphere.
What are weather balloons, Doppler radar, and weather satellites?
400
Wind speed can be measured with a?
What is an anemometer?
400
A tool used by meteorologists that measures air pressure?
What is a barometer?
400
This tool measures wind speed?
What is an anemometer?
400
Most hurricanes that form in the North Atlantic Ocean occur from June to November, with most occurring in September. What facts about hurricane formation help explain this?
What is hurricanes are fed by warm, moist air over the ocean? The North Atlantic Ocean is warmest in summer; a large amount of heat has built up by September. So this is when the air over the oceans is warmest.
400
Meteorologists have many sophisticated tools to help them forecast the weather. However, weather forecasts are still sometimes incorrect. Why do you think this is the case?
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500
A psychrometer measures?
What is relative humidity?
500
An altocumulus cloud is?
What is a puffy, mid-level cloud?
500
Cyclones and anticyclones affect the weather by?
What is the air in the center of a cyclone rises, cools, and makes clouds and rain. The sinking air of an anticyclone brings dry, clear weather?
500
If there is a tornado warning for your area, you should?
What is go to a room with no windows?
500
Meteorologists track cyclones and anticyclones because?
What is they help predict stormy or clear weather?