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Clouds
Air Masses
Solar Radiation
Fronts
Misc.
100
White fluffy clouds.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
The horizontal movement of air.
What is wind?
100
This is the measure of how hot or cold something is compared to a reference point.
What is temperature?
100
This is the name of the boundary where unlike air masses meet, but do not easily mix.
What is a front?
100
This is what happens to the density of air as it is heated.
What is the density decreases?
200
High, wispy, feathery clouds.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
Humid cold air that forms over the North Pacific.
What is a maritime polar air mass?
200
These are electromagnetic waves that are longer than red waves, and this is also the form that heat takes when radiating from the Earth's surface.
What are infrared waves?
200
This front is where a cold air mass is moving into an area and moving out a warm air mass.
What a cold front?
200
This is the most common type of precipitation and the name of at least two other forms of precipitation.
What is rain being the most common precipitation and snow, sleet, hail, and freezing rain?
300
Flat layered clouds.
What are stratus clouds?
300
Dry warm air that comes from Mexico.
What is a continental tropical air mass.
300
This is the direct transfer of thermal energy between two objects or substances that are touching.
What is conduction?
300
This describes a warm front.
What is when a warm air mass moves into an area and pushing out a cold air mass?
300
This is the term used to describe someone who studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
400
Towering flat topped clouds that usually bring thunder storms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
These are the description of continental polar and maritime tropical air masses.
What is dry cold air and humid warm air?
400
This is convection.
What is the transfer of energy by the movement of a fluid?
400
This is when a warm and cold air mass meet and do not move.
What is a stationary front.
400
This is the effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents.
What is the coriolis effect?
500
Middle level stratus clouds.
What are altostratus clouds?
500
This is the major global wind that affects most of the continental United States and its direction.
What are the prevailing westerlies, which come from the west to the east?
500
This is the total energy of motion in the particles of a substance.
What is thermal energy?
500
This is an occluded front.
What is when a cold air mass moves into an area where it overtakes a warm air mass and pushes up and over the cold air mass.
500
This describes dew point, and where outside can you see the dew point.
What is the temperature at which condensation begins, and at the base of the clouds?