Types of Precipitation
Most common type of Precipitation.
What is Rain?
A front is associated with cold and rainy weather
What is a Cold Front?
The first layer of the Atmosphere.
What is the Troposphere?
The process where water heats up and turns into water vapor.
What is Evaporation?
The type of Air Mass forms over land.
What is a Continental Air Mass?
Precipitation that contains frozen water that's turned into ice.
What is Snow?
Front that is associated with longer precipitation, fog, and hotter temperatures
What is a Warm Front?
The layer of the atmosphere is second closest to earth.
What is the Stratosphere?
The amount of stages are in the water cycle.
What is 6?
The two main characteristics used to classify every air mass
What is temperature and moisture?
The amount of types of precipitation.
What is 4?
Type of weather an occluded front brings.
What is complex or mixed weather?
The coldest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Mesosphere?
Runoff.
What is the flow of water across the Earth's surface that occurs when excess precipitation or snowmelt cannot be absorbed into the soil?
Maritime polar air mass.
What is cold and humid, often bringing chilly, rainy weather to the West Coast.
The 4 types of precipitation.
What is snow, rain, sleet, and hail?
The 4 types of weather Fronts.
What is a cold front, warm front, stationary front, and an occluded front.
What is the ozone layer?
Condensation.
What is the physical process by which a substance transitions from a gas state into a liquid state?
This type of freezing, dry air mass originates over the snow-covered regions of the high latitudes.
What is a Continental Polar air mass?
A solid form of precipitation consisting of irregular pieces of ice that fall during severe thunderstorms.
What is hail?
This is the general scientific term for a boundary where two different air masses meet.
What are weather Fronts?
This fourth layer of the atmosphere is the largest and experiences the highest temperatures.
Tiny droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air that form as a result of condensation.
What are clouds?
An air mass that forms over a desert in the summer is classified as this.
What is continental tropical?