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Clouds
Precipitation
Air masses
Storms
Fronts
100
water vapor and particles of dust and smoke
What is needed for clouds to form?
100
precipitation
What is any form of water that falls from the sky?
100
air mass
What is a huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height?
100
storm
What is a violent disturbance in the atmosphere?
100
fronts
What is where two different air masses meet?
200
Cirrus clouds
What are thin wispy (feathery) clouds that form high in the sky and bring clear skies?
200
freezing rain
What is rain that freezes when it touches a cold surface?
200
continental
What is a dry air mass that forms over land?
200
thunderstorms
What is a small storm accompanied by heavy precipitation and frequent thunder and lightning?
200
cold front
What is aq cold air mass that moves in and pushes a warm front upward?
300
Cumulus clouds
What are the clouds that look like cotton balls and usually have flat bottoms?
300
sleet
What is rain that freezes as it passes through a layer of the atmosphere with freezing temperatures?
300
tropical
What is a warm air mass that forms in the tropics?
300
tornado
What is a rapidly whirling winds, that form a funnel cloud that touches the ground?
300
warm front
What is a warm air mass that meets a cold air mass and moves up and over the cold air?
400
Cumulonimbus clouds
What are the clouds that bring thunderstorms with lightning, thunder and heavy rains?
400
snow
What is created when water vapor in a cloud is converted directly into ice crystals.
400
polar
What is a cold air mass that forms north in polar regions?
400
hurricane
What is a tropical storm that forms over a low pressure area with winds of 119 km/h?
400
stationary front
What is it when a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and neither one is strong enough to push the other out of the way?
500
Stratus clouds
What are the clouds that form a flat layer covering the sky with gray?
500
hail
What starts as an ice pellet inside a cold region of a cloud and grows over time being tossed up and down in a cloud?
500
maritime
What is an air mass that forms over water?
500
storm surge
What is a dome of water that sweeps across the coast where the huricane lands?
500
occluded front
What is it when a warm air mass is caught between two cold air masses?