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Water
Precipitation
Fronts and Air masses
Storms
Predicting weather
100
What is water cycle
A continuous movement of water between atmosphere and the earths surface
100
The basic types are rain,hail,snow,sleet and freezing rain
What is the basic types of precipitation
100
Name the front that causes thunderstorms and clear skies
Cold front
100
What is a storm
A storm is a violent disturbance in atmosphere that includes temperature and air pressure
100
A person who studies weather
A Meteoroligist
200
What is humidity
The measure of the amount water vapor in air
200
What is freezing form of rain
Freezing rain
200
Name the four types of fronts
Cold,warm,stationary and occluded front
200
What is a thunderstorm
A thunderstorm is storm of thunders and lightning
200
How do we predict the weatherr
Weather is predicted by the materials such as maps,charts and computer
300
What is relative humidity
The measure of percentage of water vapor that is saturated
300
How many millimeters is sleet nearly always
5 millimeters
300
What do scientist classify to separate air masses
The temperature and the relative humidity
300
What is a hurricane
a hurricane tropical cyclone that has wind speed over 119 Km per hour (73 miles per hour)
300
What does a big H stand for in the maps
High pressure zones
400
What would happen if the surface is below freezing during condensation
It falls as snow
400
What are hail formed from
Hail is from clouds and is a type of percipitation
400
What is a anticyclone
High pressure centers of dry air
400
What is a hurricane damage measuring scale called
Fugita scale
400
What are isotherms meaning
Places that have equal temperature
500
How is a psychometer used
The instrument is sling to measure relative humidity
500
What is Greek meaning for startus
stratus stands for "spread out''
500
What wind pushes the fronts from west to east
Prevailing westrlies
500
What is a storm surge
A dome of water that sweeps across where a hurricane lands
500
What is a butterfly effect
The accuracy of predicting the weather before one month