weather

Question 1

humidity

Answer 1

the amount of water vapor in the air

Question 2

cumulus cloud

Answer 2

puffy,white clouds with flat bottoms

Question 3

stratus cloud

Answer 3

clouds that form in layers

Question 4

cirrus cloud

Answer 4

thin, feathery white clouds found at high altitudes

Question 5

cumulonimbus cloud

Answer 5

Cumulonimbus is a dense, towering vertical cloud, forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents. If observed during a storm, these clouds may be referred to as thunderheads.

Question 6

condensation

Answer 6

water which collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it

Question 7

evaporation

Answer 7

the process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas or vapor.

Question 8

precipitation

Answer 8

rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground

Question 9

runoff

Answer 9

the draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure, etc

Question 10

rain

Answer 10

moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops

Question 11

sleet

Answer 11

a form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow

Question 12

snow

Answer 12

atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.

Question 13

hail

Answer 13

pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds

Question 14

Polar – Maritime Airmass

Answer 14

air coming originally from polar regions but having humidity and temperature properties modified by passing over relatively warm oceans

Question 15

Tropical – Maritime Airmass

Answer 15

the most important moisture-bearing and rain-producing air mass throughout the year

Question 16

Polar – Continental Airmass

Answer 16

Continental polar (cP) or continental arctic (cA) air masses are cold, dry, and stable. These air masses originate over northern Canada and Alaska as a result of radiational cooling. They move southward, east of Rockies into the Plains, then eastward

Question 17

tropical- continental air mass

Answer 17

a type of tropical air produced by the subtropical ridge over large areas of land and typically originate from low-latitude deserts such as the Sahara Desert in northern Africa,