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Clouds form when water vapor in the air...
What is condenses
100
Hailstones form in these kinds of clouds
What is cumulonimbus
100
The measure of the amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity
100
The water cycle is powered by...
What is the sun
100
Any form of water that falls from the clouds to earth is called
What is precipitation
200
Clouds that form at or near the ground...
What is stratus
200
This forms when rain freezes as it falls through the air
What is sleet
200
A huge body of air that has much the same temperature, humidity and air pressure
What is air mass
200
The boundary where air masses meet becomes a...
What is front
200
A high-pressure center of dry air is a...
What is anticyclone
300
Wispy, feathery clouds at high elevation
What is cirrus clouds
300
The sudden discharge of electricity in a storm is called
What is lightning
300
This air mass forms over land
What is continental air mass
300
Maritime air masses form over...
What is the ocean
300
Centers of low air pressure...
What is cyclones
400
Clouds that look like fluffy, rounded piles of cotton
What is cumulus clouds
400
These storms produce the highest winds
What are hurricanes
400
How does a warm front form?
What is a warm air mass overtakes a slow moving cold air mass
400
T/F Meteorologists can predict the weather very accurately 1 month in advance
What is false
400
Temperature at which condensation begins
What is dew point
500
These clouds mean "spread out" and cover the world like a bed sheet
What is stratus
500
A tropical cyclone with wind speeds of at least 110 kilometers per hour...
What is hurricane
500
Define isobars
What is lines on a weather map that join places with the same air pressure
500
These push air masses from west to east
What are prevailing westerlies and jet streams
500
What is the difference between tropical and polar air masses?
Tropical- warm, low air pressure Polar- cold, high air pressure