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Elements of Weather
Clouds
Influences of Weather
100
The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
100
A collection of small water droplets or ice crystals that are suspended in the air.
What is a cloud?
100
A large volume of air in which temperature in which temperature and moisture content are nearly the same throughout.
What is an air mass?
200
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
200
The temperature at which the rate of condensation equals the rate of evaporation.
What is the dew point? what do you mean?
200
A boundary that forms between the air masses.
What is a front?
300
Any form of water that falls to Earth's surface from the clouds.
What is precipitation?
300
The surface on which water droplets condense.
What are cloud condensation nuclei?
300
This system is where air sinks slowly down.
What is a high-pressure system?
400
The force of air molecules pushing on an area.
What is air pressure?
400
Water vapor that condenses very near the Earth's surface.
What is fog?
400
In this system, air rises.
What is a low-pressure system?
500
The measure of the transparency of the atmosphere.
What is visibility?
500
Also known as ground fog, it generally forms in low-lying areas on clear, calm nights.
What is radiation fog?
500
The curving of winds due to Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?