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Weather
The state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, cloudiness, dry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is an air mass? | An airmass is a large volume of air that has horizontally uniform properties in terms of temperature |
| How do clouds form? | Clouds form when rising air, through expansion, cools to the point where some of the water vapor molecules "clump together" faster than they are torn apart by their thermal energy |
| What is evaporation? | Evaporation is the change of water from a liquid to a gas |
| What causes fog? | condensed water droplets |
| What causes glaciers? | when the snow accumulating on land from one winter does not melt before the next winter's snow arrives |
| What is global warming? | is the rise in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation |
| What is the ozone hole? | occurs over Antarctica in the very early spring when weather conditions and a lack of sunlight which produces ozone |
| What causes snow? | the result of the warm air |
| What is a squall line? | a system of thunderstorms that have formed into a line |
| What causes tornadoes? | updrafts and downdrafts in the thunderstorm interacting with the wind shear, causing a tilting of the wind shear to form an upright tornado vortex. |
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