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Seasons
Humidity
Wind and Air Masses
Severe Weather
Clouds
100
This results in seasons as the earth revolve's around the sun.
What is the earth's tilt?
100
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is (absolute) humidity?
100
The movement of air from high pressure to low pressure.
What is wind?
100
A storm that is often associated with cumulonimbus clouds and charged water droplets.
What is a thunderstorm?
100
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
The type of solar rays that heat up areas near the equator and tropics, close to a 90 degree angle.
What is direct rays?
200
How full air is with water vapor.
What is relative humidity?
200
An air mass that originates from warm ocean waters.
What is maritime tropical?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape that is a result of wind shear and updrafts.
What is a tornado?
200
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow sometimes falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
300
The happens twice annually, when the Northern and Southern hemisphere's experience the longest days and the longest nights.
What is a solstice?
300
The temperature at which water condenses from water vapor.
What is dew point?
300
The boundary between a cold air mass that is pushing a warmer air mass.
What is a cold front?
300
Large, powerful storm that is powered by warm waters.
What is a hurricane?
300
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
When everywhere on earth experiences 12 hours of day and night
What is the equinox?
400
Cold air holds ________ water vapor than warm air.
What is less?
400
Results in a deflection of wind patterns due to the earths rotation.
What is the coriolis effect?
400
Strong updrafts and downdrafts in cumulonimbus clouds leads to the freezing and melting of this form of precipitation
What is a hail?
400
The rise of an air mass due to elevated topographic features (mountains).
What is orographic lifting?
500
The region of the earth that experience 24 hours of night on December 21
What is the arctic circle?
500
If the temperature and the dew point are close together, the air would be _________.
What is saturated / near 100% relative humidity?
500
Results in the uneven heating of air on a local scale.
What are variations in surface compositions / specific heat of different materials?
500
Lightning's intense heating and cooling of air leads to this loud noise.
What is thunder?
500
The three major steps for cloud formation.
What is air rises, air expands, water condenses?