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Clouds and Precipitation
Air Masses
Storms
Predicting Weather
Chapter 15 or 17?
100
Clouds form when water vapor in the air changes to liquid water or ice crystals.
What is condensation?
100
The boundary where air masses meet.
What is a front?
100
A violent disturbance in the atmosphere.
What is a storm?
100
A scientist who studies and tries to predict weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100
The result of the weight of a column of air pushing down on an area.
What is air pressure?
200
These clouds look like cotton and indicate fair weather.
What is cumulus?
200
A fast-moving warm air mass overtakes a slower cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
200
Forms inside a thunderstorm's cumulonimbus cloud.
What is a tornado?
200
Lines joining places on a map with the same temperature.
What is an isotherm?
200
Caused by differences in air pressure.
What is wind?
300
These clouds form in flat layers at low altitudes and are often gray in color.
What is stratus?
300
Air masses that are cold and form over land.
What is polar continental?
300
A type of storm accompanied by heavy precipitation, lightning, and thunder.
What is a thunderstorm?
300
Lines joining places on a map with the same air pressure.
What is an isobar?
300
The conditions at a particular time and place, like temperature and relative humidity.
What is weather?
400
These clouds are at high altitudes and indicate fair weather.
What is cirrus?
400
Cold and warm air masses meet, but neither one can move the other, bringing days of clouds and precipitation.
What is a stationary front?
400
This storm brings high waves, flooding, and wind damage.
What is a hurricane?
400
On a weather map, triangles are shown on a curved line.
What is a cold front?
400
The average, year-after-year weather patterns for a given area.
What is climate?
500
These are the four common types of precipitation.
What are rain, sleet, freezing rain, snow, and hail?
500
An air mass has these three things the same throughout.
What are temperature, humidity, and air pressure?
500
The sound of the explosive spark or electrical discharge between clouds.
What is thunder?
500
These are three different tools used by meteorologists to prepare weather forecasts.
What are (maps, charts, computers, satellites, radar, balloons, etc.)?
500
The two major factors used to determine climate.
What are temperature and precipitation?