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Air Masses
Clouds
Severe Weather
Weather Tools and Forecasting
Climate
100
A large body of air with the same properties throughout
What is an air mass?
100
These clouds are puffy and white.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
This is when a charge of positive energy flows from a cloud to the ground.
What is lightning?
100
This tool measures air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
This is climate.
What is the same type of weather in a place over a long period of time?
200
Molecules are packed tightly together to form this heavy air
What is cold air?
200
These clouds bring long periods of steady rain.
What are stratus clouds.
200
A spiraling log of fast moving air.
What is a tornado?
200
This tool measures air pressure.
What is a Barometer.
200
This changes more than the climate.
What is the weather?
300
Air moving from areas of high pressure to low pressure
What is wind?
300
Storm clouds.
What are cumulonimbus?
300
This is where hurricanes get their energy.
What is warm wet air (ocean air)?
300
This weather occurs with rising barometric pressure.
What is nice/fair weather?
300
This LANDFORM affects climate of areas.
What are mountains?
400
The boundry between two air masses
What is a front?
400
These are the highest clouds in the sky.
What are cirrus clouds?
400
The safe place to go during a severe storm (tornado, hurricane).
What is the basement?
400
The type of pressure system that brings poor weather.
What is low pressure?
400
These help scientists determine past climates from long ago.
What are fossils?
500
The four types of air masses.
What are continential polar, continental tropical, maritime polar, maritime tropical?
500
These clouds are formed when a cold front pushes warm wet air up.
What are cumulonimbus clouds.
500
The name of a tornado before it touches the ground.
What is a funnel cloud?
500
The probable weather with falling barometric pressure and cumulonimbus clouds.
What is a thunderstorm?
500
Volcanic eruptions, asteriod impacts, and burning fossil fuels.
What are changes in climate?