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Weather Factors
Clouds
Fronts/Air Mass
Severe Weather
Weather Maps
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The three main weather factors(causes weather)are wind, humidity and ____.
What is the sun?
100
Clouds are during the this cycle.
What is water cycle?
100
This is a large body of air that has the same temperature and moisture content as the area over which it formed.
What is an air mass?
100
This type of severe storm is a violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground.
What is tornado?
100
"H" on a weather map means that we will have clear weather.
What is high pressure?
200
Is a measure of the amount of water vapor that air is holding compared to the amount needed for saturation.
What is relative humidity?
200
The three main types of clouds are cumulus, stratus, and this type of cloud.
What is cirrus?
200
Florida air mass would be....
What is warm and moisture?
200
This front has triangles on a boundry line.
What is cold front?
300
The __________ provides the earth with all of it's energy.
What is the sun?
300
This type of cloud has high, thin, white, feathery clouds containing ice crystals associated with fair weather.
What is a cirrus?
300
A boundry between two air masses that have different temperature, density, or moisture.
What are fronts?
300
"L" usually means that we will have this type of weather conditions.
What is cloudy and precipitation?
400
Look on page 108. Pressure effect the temperture by____.
What is pressure decreases temperature increases and pressure increases temperature decreases?
400
Nimbus added to any type of cloud would be mean this type of weather system.
What is rain or snow?
400
When cold moves in pushing warm air up then thunderstorms and tornadoes may form because of this front.
What is a cold front?
400
This is the most powerful severe storm. Has powerful winds and huge storm surges.
What is a hurricane?
400
These lines are to keep track of high and low pressure areas, weather maps are drawn with lines connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure.
What is isobars?
500
This element of air determines its temperture.
What is the average motion of air molecules?
500
This type of cloud is low,layered gray cloud that produce light precipitation.
What is stratus cloud?
500
Low-pressure systems usually produce precipitation and storms.
What is cold air mass and warm air mass?
500
Describe one way a tornado and hurricanes are the same.
What is they both have rotating air and powerfull winds?
500
Name and describe two types of weather maps used by metoerologist to predict the weather.
What is temperature, cloud coverage, and precipitation?