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Vocabulary
Water in the Air
Air Masses and Fronts
Severe Weather
Forecasting the Weather
100
The temperature to which air must cool to be saturated is?
What is the dew point?
100
The process in which liquid turns to vapor?
What is evaporation?
100
An area in which two types of air masses meet?
What is a front?
100
If there is a tornado warning for your area, you should?
What is go to a room with no windows?
100
Isobars help meteorologists by?
What is showing high and low pressure areas?
200
An area of high pressure where air moves apart and sinks?
What is an anticyclone?
200
The process in which water vapor turns to liquid?
What is condensation?
200
What kind of weather does a stationary front bring?
What is many days of cloudy, wet weather?
200
Which statement about tornadoes is correct? a) They are a very common part of thunderstorms. b) Their danger is mainly from the heavy rains they bring. c) Seventy-five percent of the world's tornadoes occur in the United States. d) They are the strongest storms on Earth.
What is seventy-five percent of the world's tornadoes occur in the United States.
200
Meteorologists track cyclones and anticyclones because they?
What is help predict stormy or clear weather?
300
The amount of water vapor in the air?
What is humidity?
300
An altocumulus cloud is?
What is a puffy, mid-level cloud?
300
This is a tool that measures wind speed?
What is an anemometer?
300
A storm surge is a dangerous part of a?
What is a hurricane?
300
This tracks the location, movement, and amount of precipitation?
What is radar?
400
An area of low pressure where air masses meet and rise?
What is a cyclone?
400
Hail is?
What is rain that may be sent up into the clouds many times?
400
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?
400
Lightning is an electrical discharge between a positively charged area and?
What is a negatively charged area?
400
This is a tool that measures air temperature?
What is a thermometer?
500
This is a weather tool that consists of two thermometers?
What is a psychrometer?
500
Fog is this type of cloud?
What is a stratus cloud?
500
What causes changes in weather?
What is air masses move and meet?
500
Unstable atmospheric conditions lead to the formation of lightning and thunder in what kind of clouds?
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
This is a tool that measures air pressure?
What is a barometer?