What is stormy weather?
A big mass of atmosphere that has similar properties throughout
What is an air mass?
Type of weather usually associated with a high-pressure system
What is fair skies and sunny?
Which of these would likely occur when a cold front moves in with an unstable atmosphere, hail, and heavy constant winds? (drought, tornado, hurricane, blizzard)
What is a tornado?
Type of front represented by this symbol
What is an occluded front?
The type of weather associated with cirrus clouds
What is fair weather?
The force with which air molecules push on a surface
Type of pressure system which would bring cloudy skies and stormy weather
What is a low pressure system?
Type of weather usually associated with a warm front
What is cloudy skies and rainy weather?
Type of front represented by this symbol
What is a stationary front?
Type of cloud that blankets the sky and may cause drizzle
What is a stratus cloud?
Tool used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
Symbol that represents a high pressure system
What is an upper case blue H?
Type of front represented by this symbol
What is a cold front?
Meaning of nimbo/nimbus
What is precipitation?
Type of cloud that is fluffy and looks like cotton and is associated with fair weather
What is a cumulus cloud?
When temperature, altitude, and humidity increase, then air pressure _________________. (increases, decreases).
What is decreases?
Symbol that represents a low pressure system
What is an upper case red L?
The boundary between two air masses
What is a front?
Clouds that are at the highest level of the atmosphere
What are cirrus clouds?
Type of stratus cloud that is ground level
What is fog?
Warm air is _____________ dense that cold air.
(more/less)
What is less?
Direction that air moves in a high pressure system in the Northern Hemisphere (clockwise/counterclockwise)
What is clockwise?
Type of front represented by this symbol
What is a warm front?
Process of the water cycle when water vapor loses heat and turns into tiny water droplets which form clouds
What is condensation?