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23 Cards in this Set
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Humidity |
Is a measure of the amount of water vapor |
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What is cirrrus? |
Curl of hair, made ice form at high levels |
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Clumulus |
Heap of mass Fluffy like cloud |
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How do clouds form |
When water vapor in the air condenses |
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Relative humidity |
Can be measure with an instrument called a psychrometer |
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Stratus |
Cover everything Spread out |
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Fog |
Is humid and can’t see cause of it |
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Different types of precipitation |
Rain hail snow sleet and freezing rain |
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Hail |
Comes from cumulonimbus clouds |
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Air mass |
A huge body of air given height |
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Maritime |
Air masses form over oceans |
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Continental |
Air masses form over land |
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Front |
Boundary where the air masses meet |
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Cyclone |
Low air pressure |
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Anticyclone |
height air pressure |
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What are the four major fronts |
Cold warm stationary occluded fronts |
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Storm |
Is a violence disturbance in the atomisphere |
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Thunderstorm |
Is a small storm often accomplished by heavy precipitation |
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Lightning |
Is a sudden spark or electric discharge as charges |
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Hurricane |
Is a tropical cyclone that has winds of 119km per hour of higher |
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Meteorologists |
Are scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it |
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Isobars |
Are lines joining pace on the map that home air pressure |
