Weather vocabulary 2023

Question 1

Dew Point

Answer 1

temperature to which air must be cooled to become saturated (full) with water vapor(gas).

Question 2

Climate

Answer 2

-average weather pattern in an area over a long period of time (temperature, humidity, precipitation, and vegetation), 30 years plus!

Question 3

Weather-

Answer 3

The conditions outside in the atmosphere at a particular place and time (may change second to second, day to day, week to week, month to month).

Question 4

Precipitation

Answer 4

water,rain, sleet, snow, hail, and mist, that falls to Earth’s surface.
Types of precipitation include rain, sleet, snow, hail, and mist.

Question 5

Air mass

Answer 5

a large body of air that is similar in temperature, humidity, and air pressure throughout.

Question 6

Air pressure

Answer 6

the force of air on a surface.
Air pressure is equal to the weight of a vertical column of air divided by the area of the base of the column.

Question 7

Warm front

Answer 7

the boundary between an advancing mass of relatively warm air and a mass of colder air.

Question 8

Cold front –

Answer 8

the boundary between an advancing mass of relatively cold air and a mass of warmer air, the cold air acts like a plow forcing the warm air up.

Question 9

High-pressure system

Answer 9

– a region in which the atmospheric pressure is higher than in the surrounding areas.

Question 10

Low-pressure system

Answer 10

a region in which the atmospheric pressure is lower than in the surrounding areas.