Vocabulary
Fronts
Water Cycle
Clouds
Heating
100
What is a body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure called?
What is an air mass?
100
What front happens when a cold dense fast moving air mass runs into a less dense air?
What is a cold front?
100
How many steps are in the natural water cycle?
What is 4 steps?
100
Where are Nimbostratus and Stratus found?(low level: 0 to 2000 meters; medium level: 2000 to 6000 meters; high level: above 6000 meters)
What is the Low Level
100
What is it called when there is a direct transfer of energy through space and air through electro magnetic waves?
What is radiation?
200
What is the process of turning from liquid into vapor called?
What is evaporation
200
What front occurs when a warm, less dense, fast moving air mass runs into a more dense, cold air mass and slides over the top of it?
What is a warm front?
200
What percentage of Earth's water is found in the oceans?
What is 97.25%?
200
What level are Cirrus and Cirrostratus found?(low level: 0 to 2000 meters; medium level: 2000 to 6000 meters; high level: above 6000 meters)
What is High Level?
200
what is it called when there is a transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid?
What is convection?
300
What is the boundary where unlike air masses meet, but don't mix called?
What is a front?
300
What front occurs when a cold and warm air mass meets, but can't move past one another?
What is a stationary front?
300
What percentage of Earth's fresh water is stored in ice and snow?
What is 68.7%?
300
What cloud is a dense towering vertical cloud associated with thunderstorms and atmospheric instability, forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents.
What is cumulonimbus?
300
What is it called when there is a direct transfer of heat between two substances that are touching?
What is conduction
400
What is the direct transfer of heat between two substances that are touching called?
What is conduction
400
What front occurs when a warm air mass gets caught between two cold air mass and gets pushed upward?
What is Occluded front?
400
What human activity uses the most water in the U.S.A?
What is industry?
400
who submits the clouds to the people who then categorize the clouds?
What is the peasants?
400
How do convection, radiation, and conduction relate?
What is all of them heat things
500
What is the varying temperature at which condensation happens called?
What is the dew point
500
What type of weather typically associated with a low pressure system?
What is precitation
500
What is it called when plants' leaves release water vapor?
What is transpiration?
500
When was the cloud atlas last revised before the 2000s.
What is 1987?
500
What is it called when heat goes from a human to a turtle?
What is conduction?