Vocabulary
The natural movement of air due to the uneven heating of the earth is...
What is wind?
Weight of the atmosphere over a location?
What is Barometric Pressure?
Atmospheric Pressure
A large body of air that can cover thousands of miles and is relatively the same conditions (temperature and humidity) throughout
What is an air mass?
The boundary between two different air masses
What is a weather front?
A cloud when it is on the ground.
What is fog?
Device used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
Finish the sentence
Barometric pressure decreases as altitude ________
What is Increases?
Type of air mass formed near the poles and over water
Maritime Polar
Type of weather front that moves fast and can bring stormy weather.
What is a Cold Front?
A cloud that has nimbo or nimbus in its name.
What is a rain cloud?
The form of heat transfer that moves in air or water and works by differences in density causing warm fluids to rise and cool fluids to sink.
What is convection?
Symbol we use to represent a high pressure system and kind of weather can you expect to come with a high pressure system.
What is Capital Blue H
Clear Weather
Type of air mass formed over land closer to the equator
Continental Tropical
Type of weather front that may linger for days.
What is a stationary front?
A thunderstorm cloud.
What is cumulonimbus?
Weather instrument used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
Symbol we use to represent a low pressure system and type of weather can you expect to come with a low pressure system.
What is Capital L
Stormy or rainy Weather?
The natural phenomena that moves air masses
What is wind?
Type of weather front that is slow moving and sometimes brings stratus or nimbostratus clouds.
Warm Front
A type of cloud covers the sky and is raining. It typically comes with a warm front.
nimbostratus
A measure of how much water vapor is in the air compared to what the air can hold (must say both parts)
What is relative humidity?
Low pressure
The 4 types of air masses
Continental Polar
Continental Tropical
Maritime Polar
Maritime Tropical
Type of weather front associated with cumulonimbus clouds.
Cold Front
Type of cloud very high in the troposphere. Made of ice crystals.
What is cirrus?