Question | Answer |
The general condition of the atmosphere | Weather |
The amount of water vapor in the air | Humidity |
A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air compared | Relative Humidity |
The temerature when air is saturated and condensation forms | Dew Point |
This forms when the aie is cooled to its dew point | Fog |
water falling from the clouds | Precipitation |
This measures wind speed | Anemometer |
the formation of liquid water from water vapor | Condensation |
This is made up from billions of water droplets suspended in air | Cloud |
forms layers & at low altitudes | Stratus |
puffy white clouds and have flat bases. Sometimes means thunderstorms or fair weather | Cumulus |
fibrous or curly; high and thin, white feathery clouds made of ice crystals. Fair weather or approaching storms | Cirrus |
associated with rain or snow | Nimbus |
this is a cloud that is tall and dense and involved in thunderstorms and other intense weather | Cumulonimbus |
water passes through freezing air near the earths surface | Sleet |
pellets of ice form inside a cloud | Hail |
large bodies of air with properties similar to the part of the Earth's surface over which droplets (temperature & moisture) | Air mass |
bonndaries between 2 air masses of different density | Front |
a violent, whirling wind that moves in a narrow path over LAND | Tornado |
the most powerful storm it turns heat energy from the OCEAN into wind | Hurricane |
winter storm with high winds, low temperature and poor visibility | Blizzard |
the person who studys weather | Meterorologist |
this is a combination of symbols that represents the data that meterorologist gather from the Earths surface | Station Model |
a line that connnects locations of equal temperature | Isotherm |
a line drawn to connects points of equal atmospheric pressure | Isobar |