Clouds
Air Pressure
High/Low Pressure
Fronts
Miscellaneous
100
Type of weather usually associated with a cumulonimbus cloud
What is stormy weather?
100
A big mass of atmosphere that has similar properties throughout
What is an air mass?
100
Type of weather usually associated with a high-pressure system
What is fair skies and sunny?
100
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?
100
What measures humidity?
What is a Hygrometer
200
The type of weather associated with cirrus clouds
What is fair weather?
200
The force with which air molecules push on a surface
What is air pressure?
200
Type of pressure system which would bring cloudy skies and stormy weather
What is a low pressure system?
200
Type of weather usually associated with a warm front
What is cloudy skies and rainy weather?
200
Which clouds act as a potential warning sign?
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Type of cloud that blankets the sky and may cause drizzle
What is a stratus cloud?
300
Tool used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
300
Symbol that represents a high pressure system
What is an upper case blue H?
300
Type of front represented by this symbol
What is a cold front?
300
Meaning of nimbo/nimbus
What is precipitation?
400
Type of cloud that is fluffy and looks like cotton and is associated with fair weather
What is a cumulus cloud?
400
When temperature, altitude, and humidity increase, then air pressure _________________. (increases, decreases).
What is decreases?
400
Symbol that represents a low pressure system
What is an upper case red L?
400
The boundary between two air masses
What is a front?
400
Clouds that are at the highest level of the atmosphere
What are cirrus clouds?
500
Type of stratus cloud that is ground level
What is fog?
500
Warm air is _____________ dense that cold air.
(more/less)
What is less?
500
Direction that air moves in a high pressure system in the Northern Hemisphere (clockwise/counterclockwise)
What is clockwise?
500
Type of front represented by this symbol
What is a warm front?
500
Process of the water cycle when water vapor loses heat and turns into tiny water droplets which form clouds
What is condensation?