The state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place.
What is WEATHER?
100
These form when moist warm air rises and cools.
What are clouds?
100
Four types of severe storms
What are hurricanes, tornados, thunderstorms, and blizzards?
100
All types of water falling from clouds.
What is precipitation?
100
A large body of air with properties (like temperature and moisture content) similar to the land it is over.
What is an air mass?
200
Air moving in a specific direction.
What is WIND?
200
The three types are stratus, cumulus and cirrus.
What are clouds?
200
These occur in warm moist air masses along fronts, forming cumulonimbus clouds.
What is a thunderstorm?
200
Precipitation that forms lumps of ice.
What is hail?
200
A front of lighter, warmer air represented by a red line with semi circles.
What is a warm front
300
The temperature at which water vapor in the air is saturated and condensation forms
What is the DEW POINT?
300
These clouds form in layers or smooth even sheets.
What are stratus clouds?
300
A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground.
What is a tornado?
300
This determines if it rains or snows.
What is air temperature?
300
Represented by a blue line with triangles.
What is cold front drawn on a weather map?
400
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is HUMIDITY?
400
These are high, thin, curly clouds.
What what are cirrus clouds?
400
A large swirling low pressure system that develops over the Atlantic Ocean, with heavy rain and winds of at least 119 km/hr.
What is a hurricane?
400
Four types of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, hail, sleet?
400
A front that involves 3 air masses, these are shown on maps as purple lines with triangles and semi circles.
What is an occluded front?
500
A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air compared to the amount needed for saturation at a specific temperature.
What is RELATIVE HUMIDITY?
500
These are puffy white clouds that can tower to great heights and can produce thunderstorms.
What are cumulus clouds?
500
Storm with falling or blowing snow and winds of 56 km/hr or greater with poor visibility.
What is a blizzard?
500
This forms when water vapor freezes.
What is SNOW?
500
A type of weather front that stops moving or advancing and stays in the same place for several days. Drawn on a weather map as blue triangles connected to red semi circles.