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Vocabulary
weather prediction
Air and Weather
Fronts
Anything goes
100
A thin blanket of air surrounding the entire planet.
What is atmosphere?
100
Scientists who study and measure weather conditions.
What is a meterologist?
100
It provides energy for making weather.
What is the sun?
100
A front.
What happens when two air masses meet?
100
The layer of air that where most weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
200
The four layers of the atmosphere.
What are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere?
200
An instrument that measures the temperature in the air.
What is a thermometer?
200
Largebodies of air which can cover thousands of kilometers.
What is an air mass?
200
A line with triangles on a weather map.
What is the symbol for a cold front?
200
The layer of air that contains most of the atmosphere's ozone.
What is the stratosphere?
300
All the particles of air pressing down on the surface.
What is air pressure?
300
Factors that affect the humidity of air.
What are the area over which an air mass forms, and the temperature?
300
Two properties used to describe air masses.
What are moisture content and temperature?
300
A line with half circles on a weather map.
What is the symbol for a warm front?
300
The coldest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere?
400
Without this Earth would reflect most of the sun's energy back into space.
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
Weather conditions change rapidly and unexpectedly.
What is the reason weather forecasts aren't always accurate?
400
An air mass that forms over the water near the equator.
What is warm and moist?
400
Warm air catching up to cold air.
What is a warm front?
400
This occurs when high and low pressure areas meet.
What is wind?
500
Instruments that measure humidity, air pressure, and wind speed.
What is a psychrometer, a barometer, and a anemometer?
500
Two tools used to find wind direction.
What are a weather vane and a windsock?
500
An air mass that forms over Canada.
What is cold and dry?
500
A front that stops moving.
What is a stationary front?
500
The line with triangles and half circles on a weather map.
What is the symbol for a stationary front?