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What process of the water cycle forms clouds?
What is condensation.
Water vapor that condenses around dust or air particles in the atmosphere is called what?
Clouds
What is it called where two air masses meet?
What is a front?
What tool measures air pressure?
What is a barometer.
This climate is warm.
What is Tropical
What powers the water cycle?
What is the sun?
This type of cloud is round and puffy. The word means heap or pile.
What is cumulus
A curved line with red half circles on it is the symbol for a ?
What is warm front
What is the force that pushes on air molecules?
What is air pressure?
This climate is cold
What is polar
rain, sleet, snow, and hail are examples of?
What is precipitation.
This type of cloud is very high in the atmosphere, and is thin and wispy. The word means curl.
What is Cirrus
The weather forecast indicates that the weather will be turning cold very quickly with the chance of a tornado. What type of front would cause this?
What is a cold front.
Differences in air pressure would cause what?
What is wind.
This climate is humid and wet
What is maritime
1. What do the words maritime, continental, polar, and tropical mean?
2. Describe the continental tropical (cT) airmass.
1.What is wet (humid), dry, cold, and warm.
2. Dry and warm (desert)
This type of cloud is low and covers the sky. The word means layer.
Stratus.
This type of front is when a warm and cold front meet. It brings many days of cloudy, wet weather.
What is a stationary front.
the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time
What is weather?
This climate is dry
What is continental
This cloud is large, dark and high in the sky. It is associated with bad weather such as thunderstorms.
What is cumulonimbus.
This type of cloud covers the sky and produces rain or snow.
Nimbostratus
This type of front is when a warm and cold front are moving in the same direction.
What is an occluded front.
a large body of air with similar temperature, humidity and air pressure that forms over land or water.
What is an air mass?
The climate of Florida
Maritime tropical.