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Clouds
Air Masses
Weather Instruments
Weather Forecasting
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100
These clouds are puffy and white with flat bottoms.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
This air mass is cold and dry.
What is a Continental Polar air mass?
100
This instrument measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
Any form of water that falls to Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
100
The change of state from gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
200
These clouds form in layers and cover large areas of the sky.
What are stratus clouds?
200
This air mass is moist and warm.
What is a Maritime Tropical air mass?
200
This instrument measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
200
L on a weather map.
What is low pressure?
200
A collection of small water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air (formed from condensation).
What is a cloud?
300
These clouds are thin and feathery.They form at high altitudes.
What are cirus clouds?
300
This air mass would be found over the North Pole.
What is a Continental Polar air mass?
300
This instrument measures relative humidity.
What is a psychrometer?
300
A large body of air where temperature and moisture content are similar throughout
What is an Air Mass?
300
The continuous movement of water from sources on the Earth's surface, into the air and back to the surface.
What is the Water cycle?
400
These clouds produce thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
This air mass would be found over the Arctic Ocean (cold).
What is a Maritime Polar air mass?
400
They orbit the Earth to provide images of weather systems seen on TV weather reports.
What are weather satellites?
400
The temperature at which gas condenses into a liquid.
What is the Dew Point?
400
When liquid water changes into a gas.
What is evaporation?
500
These clouds usually mean fair weather
What are cumulus clouds?
500
The place where 2 air masses meet.
What is a front?
500
This instrument measures atmosperic pressure.
What is a barometer?
500
A day that is sunny and cloudless would have this type of pressure.
What is High Pressure.
500
This occurs when a Low Pressure system moves into our area.
What is precipitation?