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Elements of Weather
Clouds
The Influences of Weather
Climate
Mixed Category
100
The condition of Earth´s atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
100
Clouds are collections of small water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air.
What are clouds?
100
A large volume of air in which temperature and moisture are nearly the same throughout.
What is an air mass?
100
Temperature and precipitation determine this.
What determines weather?
100
Currents on the surface of the ocean.
What are surface currents?
200
Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air and is measured with a psychrometer.
What is humidity and how is it measured?
200
Fog is water vapor that condenses near Earth.
What is fog?
200
A boundary that forms between air masses.
What is a front?
200
Weather conditions in a area over a large period of time.
What is climate?
200
The measure of transparency in the atmosphere.
What is visibility?
300
Percipitation is any form of water that falls on Earth´s surface from the clouds, it is measured bu a rain guage.
What is percipitation and how is it measured?
300
Clouds form when water vapor condenses.
How do clouds form?
300
Long distance winds that travel above global winds for thousands of kilometers.
What are jet streams?
300
The angular distance in degrees north and south from the equator.
What is latitude?
300
The temperature at which more condensation than evaporation occurs.
What is dew point?
400
Air pressure is the force of air molecules pushing on an area, it is measured by barometer.
What is air pressure and how is it measured?
400
They are visible because they reflect light.
Why are clouds visible?
400
It forms when air stays in the same place for a long time.
How do air masses form?
400
The surface features of an area.
What is topography?
400
You can use a satellite, an air plane, a ship, a ground station, or a weather buoy to collect this.
What are some ways to collect weather data?
500
Wind is air that moves horizontally or parallel to Earth´s surface and is measured by an anemometer.
What is wind and how is it measured?
500
Fog forms when water vapor condenses near the ground.
How does fog form?
500
They form in the middle latitudes of Earth.
Where do fronts form?
500
The height above sea level.
What is elevation?
500
50% of the sun´s rays are absorbed by land.
How much of the sun´s rays are absorbed by land?