Severe Weather
Stormy weather is associated with a low or high reading on a barometer?
What is a low reading?
Forms when air temperature is below freezing and water vapor changes directly to a solid in the clouds.
What is snow?
Our ears pop going down a mountain because the air pressure gets greater or less when you travel to lower elevations...
A weatherman said Conditions are favorable for severe weather. He is issuing a...
What is a watch?
This weather tool measures precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
Air pressure is the greatest at-
What is sea level?
Can persist for years and have substantial impact on crops and livestock
Raindrops that pass through a layer of freezing air near Earth's surface will form what?
What is sleet?
Out of the following, which 2 forms of precipitation are present during a tornado?
Snow, sleet, hail, freezing rain, Rain
Hail and Rain
This type of weather tool measures wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
A cold air mass moving underneath a warm mass is what kind of front.
What is a cold front?
Layer of the atmosphere that is located closest to Earth's surface and where most weather occurs in the...
What is troposphere?
This layer of the atmosphere contains the highest concentration of ozone?
The boundary between cold and warm air masses
This type of weather tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
Large circular storms; form as low pressure systems. Strongest over warm tropical ocean waters.
What is a hurricane?
When a warm air mass moves over a cold air mass. What will most likely happen?
Hurricane will form
Rain will fall
Hail will form.
What is rain will fall?
This connects points of equal temperature on a weather map.
What is an isotherm?
The temperature at which condensation forms.
What is dew point?
This type of weather tool measures Air pressure.
What is a barometer?
A rotating funnel shaped cloud with strong winds and thunderstorms.
What is a tornado?
What are the 3 primary factors that interact to form weather?
What is sun, air, & water?
A warm front moving into an area will cause-
A cold front moving into an area will cause-
A rise in atmospheric pressure will cause-
Answer choices-
Rise in temperature, Fair weather, Heavy rains and wind.
What is warm front- Rise in temperature, cold front- Heavy rains and winds, Rise in atmospheric pressure- Fair weather?
Large body of air that has the same properties as the Earth's surface over which it develops.
What is an air mass?
This type of weather tool measures relative humidity.
What is a psychrometer?