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Water In The Air
Air Masses
Fronts
Forecasting
Severe Weather
100
amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
100
large body of air with similar temperature and moisture content throughout
What is an air mass?
100
area where two air masses meet
What is a front?
100
This tracks the location, movement, and amount of precipitation
What is radar?
100
You should go to a room with no windows when this is coming your way
What is a tornadao?
200
The temperature to which air must cool to be saturated
What is a dew point?
200
Name one type of air mass
What is continental polar/ maritime polar/ continental tropical/maritime tropical
200
A stationary front brings this kind of weather
What is many days of cloudy, wet weather
200
These help meteorologists by showing areas of high and low pressure on a weather map
What is an isobar?
200
A storm surge is a dangerous part of this type of severe weather
What is a hurricane?
300
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300
area of LOW pressure
What is a cyclone?
300
This kind of fron occurs when a warm air mass gets caught between two cold air masses
What is an occluded front?
300
This measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
300
This precipitation may be sent up into the clouds many times
What is hail?
400
Process in which water vapor turns into liquid
What is condensation?
400
The reason why meteorologists track cyclones and anticyclones
What is they predict stormy or clear weather?
400
This kind of front occurs when cold air RAPIDLY pushes up warm air
What is a cold front?
400
Measures air pressure
What is a baromoeter?
400
75% of this type of severe weather occurs in the United States
What are tornadoes?
500
Process in which liquid turns to vapor
What is evaporation?
500
area of HIGH pressure/ air moves apart
What is an anticyclone?
500
These are the types of fronts
What are cold, warm, stationary and occluded?
500
Consists of two thermometers/ Measures relative humidity
What is a psychrometer?
500
This is an electric discharge between a positively charged area and a source region
What is lightning?