weather vocab

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. air rising is how these clouds form

Question 3

stratus cloud

Answer 3

clouds that form in layers. caused by uplifting of a large body of air into the atmopshere

Question 4

cirrus cloud

Answer 4

thin feathery white clouds found at high altitudes. form from strong winds

Question 5

condensation

Answer 5

a change of state from gas to liquid

Question 6

evaporation

Answer 6

the sun heating up the water an it turning into a gas and going into the sky

Question 7

precipitation

Answer 7

any form of water that falls to the earths surface fro the cloud

Question 8

runoff

Answer 8

the draining away of water from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure, etc

Question 9

rain

Answer 9

moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops.

Question 10

sleet

Answer 10

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

Question 11

snow

Answer 11

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

Question 12

hail

Answer 12

pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.

Question 13

cold front

Answer 13

cold air moves under warm weather

Question 14

warm front

Answer 14

warm air moves over cold air

Question 15

thunderstorm

Answer 15

a usually brief heavy storm that consists of rain strong winds , lightning and thunder

Question 16

lighting

Answer 16

an electric discharged that takes place between two Opposite charged surfaces, such as between a cloud and ground, between tow clouds, or between two parts of the same cloud

Question 17

thunder

Answer 17

the sound caused by the rapid expansion of air along an electrical strike.

Question 18

tornado

Answer 18

a destructive rotating column of air has very high wind speed, is visible s a funnel-shaped cloud, and touches the ground

Question 19

hurricane

Answer 19

a sever storm hat develops over tropical oceans and whose strong wins of more than 120km/h spiral in towns the instantly low pressure strong center

Question 20

thermometer

Answer 20

an instrument that measures and indicate temp

Question 21

anemometer

Answer 21

an interments used to measure wind speed

Question 22

maritime polar air mass

Answer 22

cool and moist

Question 23

tropical maritime air mass

Answer 23

warm and moist in its lowest layers

Question 24

Polar – Continental Air mass

Answer 24

cold, dry, snowy

Question 25

Tropical – Continental Air mass

Answer 25

desert weather so hot and dry