Meteorology
What is the biggest factor in determining if it will rain or snow?
Temperature
What are clouds cause thunderstorms?
Cumulonimbus clouds
The earth is wrapped in a protective layer of ______ known as the atmosphere.
Gases
Cold front
What tool is used to measure temperature?
Thermometer
Cummulus clouds are growing darker and taller, what precipitation with fall?
Rain
The temperature outside has been about 24° all day and the clouds look like a grey sheet. What kind of clouds are in the sky?
Stratus clouds
Most of the air in the atmosphre is above ______
Freezing
a red line with red semicircles
a barometer is used to measure
air pressure
Precipitation is falling from the sky as a liquid and freezes as soon as it hits the ground. This describes
Freezing rain
The clouds are thin and wispy and there is a slight breeze. What kind of clouds are most likely in the sky?
Cirrus clouds
The atmosphere contains _______ to make clouds.
When a cold front has passed, the temperature
Decreases
A thermometer can measure degrees in
Fahrenheit and celsius
When a warm front and a cold front meet, what could happen?
A tornado
Cummulus clouds are
White and fluffy and can turn into cumulonimbus clouds.
The Earth's atmosphre covers both _______
Land and water
At the front of a warm front, there is what kind of weather?
Rainy weather with fog
If the barometer is falling, then the air pressure is...
Low
What happens when the air is below freezing and there is a cumulonimbus cloud?
A blizzard
Cummulus clouds can turn into..
Cumulonimbus clouds
The atmosphre is held in place by the Earth's ________
gravity
The direction the warm or cold front symbol is facing is the direction the
front is moving
What measures rain fall?
Rain gauge