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Water in the atmosphere
Precipitation
Air masses and Fronts
Storms
Predicting the Weather
100
Continuous movement of water between the atmosphere and earth's surface.
What is water cycle?
100
They form as water droplets and occurs commonly in winter at California.
What is rain?
100
A huge body of air that has similar, temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height.
What is air mass?
100
Violent disturbances in the atmosphere.
What are storms?
100
The______step in forecasting is to collect data from either from simple direct observations or through the use of instruments.
What is the first step to weather forecasting?
200
The process by which water molecules in liquid absorb energy and escape into the air as water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
Water vapor that turns into frozen water vapor.
What is snow?
200
Maritime tropical, continental tropical, maritime polar, and continental polar.
What are the major types of air masses in North America?
200
A sudden spark or dischargers these charges jump between nearby clouds or between a cloud and the ground.
What is lightning?
200
Scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it.
Who are meteorologists?
300
Clouds that are fluffy and rounded.
What are cumulus clouds?
300
Round pellets of ice.
What is hail?
300
Cold fronts, warm fronts, stationary fronts, and occluded fronts.
What can colliding air masses can form?
300
Damage made by thunderstorms.
What is thunderstorm damage?
300
Maps, Charts, and computers to analyze data and to prepare weather forecasts
What do meteorologists do to prepare weather forecasts?
400
Wispy feathery clouds.
What are cirrus clouds?
400
Freezing point of water.
What is sleet?
400
A swirling center of low air pressure.
What are cyclones?
400
A rapidly whirling, funnel shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch earth's surface
What is a tornado?
400
Lines joining places that have the same air pressure.
What are isobars?
500
The percentage of water vapor in the air.
What is relative humidity?
500
Any form of water that falls from the sky.
What is precipitation
500
High pressure centers dry air.
What are anticyclones?
500
The safest place to be during a tornado.
What is Tornado Safety?
500
Lines joining places that have the same temperature.
What are isotherms?