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Water Vapor/
Humidity
Clouds
Weather
Patterns
Severe
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The amount of water
vapor in the air
compared to the
amount needed for the
air to be saturated is
Relative
Humidity
The temperature at which
condensation forms is its
Dew Point
Warmer air can hold
(more/less) water vapor and
has (more/less) pressure and
density than colder air
More water vapor
Less pressure/density
When temperatures
are low and the air
feels cool, molecules
move (fast/slowly)
slowly
When air holds all the
water vapor it can, it is
Saturated
(This is when
condensation occurs)
What are clouds made
of?
Tiny water droplets
and ice
Is fog formed from
clouds in the sky or low
to the ground?
Low to the ground
Masses of puffy white
clouds are ______.
Cumulus
High, white, feathery
clouds are known as
_________.
Layered, even sheets low in
the sky are _______ clouds
Stratus
Clouds are formed by
what process?
Condensation
A large body of air that
has similar properties
as the part of the
Earth’s surface it
develops over is a(n)
Air Mass
(Air masses have
the same
temperature and
humdity)
When two air masses
meet it forms a
Front
(What moves faster –
a cold front or a warm
front?)
Lines that connect points of
equal temperature on a
weather map are ______.
Isotherms
Lines that connect points of
equal atmospheric pressure
on a weather map are
________.
Isobars
Air Masses that form over the
Northern Pacific Ocean are
known as ____________.
Maritime Polar
(Masses formed over the
Southern Pacific are ___.)
A violent, rotating
column of wind is
known as a ______.
Tornado
Hurricanes are classified by
their ____________.
Wind speed
What happens
when warm air is
forced upward,
cools and
condenses to form
cumulonimbus
clouds?
Thunderstorms
When clouds become oppositely
charged during a storm, what
occurs?
Lightening
What forms in a low
pressure system, over
water, and develops
near the equator?
Hurricanes
Wind is air that is
moving from (high/low)
pressure to (high/low)
pressure
Wind moves from
high pressure to low
pressure
Earth’s atmosphere is
made mostly of what gas?
Nitrogen
Clouds are formed in
what layer of the
atmosphere?
Troposphere
Most of the Sun’s
energy travels through
space by what
process?
Radiation
Most of the weather
across the United States
is affected by what
system?
Prevailing westerlies