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Air Masses
Predicting Weather
Clouds
Precipitation
Atmosphere
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What is the four major air masses?
- Continental Polar - Continental Tropical - Maritime Polar - Maritime Tropical
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What is a meteorologist?
people who study and predict the weather
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What is the meaning of the word clouds
when the water vapor mixes with the ice crystals
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What is precipitation.
Any form of water that falls from clouds and touches earth's surface.
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Define Atmosphere.
It is the layer of gases that surround the planets.
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What is the Tropical air mass?
warm air masses that form in the tropics
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What is a El Nino?
a warm weather event that occurs in the tropical pacific ocean
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What is the 4 main types of clouds
cumulus,cirrus, stratus, cumulonimbus
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What is the difference between rain and drizzle.
Rain is larger and falls harder and drizzle is smaller and falls softer.
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What does the atmosphere do for the Earth.
It makes the Earth's conditions suitable for everything to live.
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What is a front?
where air masses meet and do not mix
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What is a isobar and a isotherms?
isobars-lines joint to the same air preasure isotherms- lines joined at the same temp.
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What is the highest cloud
cirrus
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What is the way snow is measured.
When it falls it lands in a gauge and it melts and tells the measurement.
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What are the other gases in the atmosphere.
Oxygen,Co2, Water Vapor, Nitrogen, Other
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What are the four types of fronts?
cold, warm, stationary, occluded
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What is 3 ways meteorologists gather information to predict the weather?
weather ballons, national weather service, local weather people, statillites
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What can cumulonimbus clouds bring.
Thunderstorms, Lighting, Snowstorms, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Hailstorms,
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What do meteorologists use to measure rainfall.
A rain gauge
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`What is the Ozone.
A form of oxygen that has 3 atoms
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What is a cyclone?
a swirling center of low air preasure
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What is 2 areas that changes in technology have occured to help predict weather.
gathering weather data and using computers to make weather forecasts
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What is the condensation process.
The process by which molecules of water vapor in the air become liquid water.
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What is the 6 types of precipitation.
Drizzle, Rain, Sleet, Snow, Freezing Rain, Hail
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What is water vapor.
The water vapor in the air in a form of gases.